State v. Crayton

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of second degree burglary and stealing, with five prior felony convictions. He was sentenced by the court to terms of three and two years respectively, or a total of five years’ imprisonment. Essentially, the sole defense was insanity, supplemented to some extent by a theory of “involuntary” drug intoxication. Defendant was 25 years old at the time of the offense and the evidence indicated that he had used narcotic drugs in some form since he was 14 or 15 years old. Two of his prior convictions were for illegal possession of narcotics.

The facts…