People v. Green

47 Cal.2d 209 (1956)

302 P.2d 307

THE PEOPLE, Respondent,

v.

EARL COMPTON GREEN, JR., Appellant.

Docket No. Crim. 5782.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 19, 1956.

Edwin F. Beach and Ben E. Nordman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, and Roy A. Gustafson, District Attorney (Ventura), for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

Defendant was charged with the murder of Joseph LaChance. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. He was tried before a jury which found that he was guilty of first…