McCracken v. Teets

41 Cal.2d 648 (1953)

HENRY FORD McCRACKEN, Appellant,

v.

H. O. TEETS as Warden, etc., Respondent.

S. F. No. 18788.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Nov. 6, 1953.

George H. Chula and James C. Monroe for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

Petitioner is confined under a judgment which imposes the death sentence for first degree murder. He has appealed from a judgment which denies his petition for mandate to compel the warden of San Quentin to institute proceedings for an inquiry into his sanity, and the attorney…