In Re Buchanan
California Supreme Court
HABEAS CORPUS in the Supreme Court to A. M. Gardner, Medical Superintendent of Napa State Hospital for the Insane, to determine the sanity of Hugh Buchanan, charged with murder in the Superior Court of Yuba County, and to obtain his return to said county for trial. E. A. Davis, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Theodore A. Bell, E. L. Webber, and Henry C. Gesford, for Petitioner.
1Opinion of the CourtBeatty, C. J.
Hugh Buchanan was brought to trial in Yuba county upon an information charging him with the crime of murder. After the trial had been several days in progress it was suspended upon a suggestion that the prisoner was then insane, and a special jury was formed for the trial of that issue. This jury, after hearing evidence and the instructions of the court, brought in a verdict to the effect that the defendant was insane, upon which he was committed to the insane asylum at Napa, now known as the Napa State Hospital, where he is still confined by Dr. A. M. Gardner, the medical superintendent of…
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