Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph John Segna
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 7, 1977No. 76-1418PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Segna, a non-Indian, shot and killed an Indian policeman on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. After a trial where the only contested issue was Segna’s legal sanity at the time of the *229offense he was convicted of first degree murder. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1152. Segna argues to us that the evidence was insufficient to prove his sanity beyond a reasonable doubt; that the district court erred in refusing to instruct the jury both on the meaning of “wrongfulness” as that word is used in the test of criminal responsibility and on the defendant’s post-acquittal status;…
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3Cited by51 opinions
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