State v. Arndt

Defendant was convicted in a consolidated trial under separate indictments of rape and unarmed robbery. Defendant waived jury trials, pleading not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. The court found that defendant “is a mentally ill person” but that “he was not psychotic, and * * * that he knew the nature and quality of his act, and that he knew the difference between right and wrong at the time of * * * the act.”

From the evidence it appears that the defendant, who was 21 years of age at the time of trial, had spent most of the time since his twelfth birthday in a training school and…