People v. Whitman

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of the county of New York on February 6,1933, for the crime of murder in the first degree, charged with the killing of one Eugene Monahan, a sergeant of police, in a subway train in the county of New York, on the 4th day of February, 1933. On February eighth the defendant, through assigned counsel, pleaded not guilty with a specification of insanity, and made a motion for the appointment of a commission in lunacy under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The court reserved decision on such motion and on the same date committed the…