McCracken v. Teets

Petitioner is confined under a judgment which imposes the death sentence for first degree murder. He has appealed from a judgment which denies his petition for mandate to compel the warden of San Quentin to institute proceedings for an inquiry into his sanity, and the attorney general has moved in the alternative to dismiss the appeal as frivolous on its face (see People v. Shorts (1948), 32 Cal.2d 502, 506, 516, 518 [197 P.2d 330] ; Williams v. Duffy (1948), 32 Cal.2d 578, 583 [197 P.2d 341] ; People v. Adamson (1949), 34 Cal.2d 320, 338 [210 P.2d 13]) or, on like grounds, to affirm the…