Court Opinion

ID: 9732691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:31:37.100835+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:31.603797
License: Public Domain

*391WOOD, J., Concurring.
I concur in the judgment. In Nobles v. State of Georgia, 168 U. S. 398 [18 Sup. Ct. 87, 42 L. Ed. 515], petitioner had been sentenced to death. The Georgia code provided: “If, after any convict shall have been sentenced to the punishment of death, he shall become insane, the sheriff of the county, with concurrence and assistance of the ordinary thereof, shall summon a jury of twelve men to inquire into such insanity.” In affirming the judgment the court said that the manner in which a suggestion of insanity should be determined was purely a matter of legislative regulation. The California legislature has provided the manner in which questions of alleged insanity are to be determined. Before sentence section 1368 of the Penal Code is applicable. After sentence the question of the mental condition of defendant is in my opinion to be determined in the manner provided by section 1587 of the Penal Code.