People v. Bradshaw

THE COURT.

The defendant was charged by information with the commission of a felony, to wit, that, being a prisoner lawfully committed to the state prison at San Quentin for a term less than life, he escaped therefrom. Upon arraignment he entered a plea of not guilty, and also a plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity”. He subsequently withdrew the first of these pleas and was tried upon the latter before a jury, which returned a verdict that he was sane on the date of the commission of the offense with which he was charged. He was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, and…