People v. French

The defendant was accused by an information filed against him in the Superior Court of the County of Modoc, this state, by the district attorney of said county, with having, on March 25, 1937, in said county, killed one Claude L. McCracken, a human being, with malice aforethought. The legal sufficiency of the information charging murder is not questioned. Upon arraignment he entered two pleas, not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the information with respect to the plea of not guilty, which carried with it the imposition of the…