HOLBROOK, J.
The defendant was admitted to Pontiac State Hospital on September 28, 1959, after the Oakland County Probate Court certified that he was mentally ill. While still institutionalized on or about May 31, 1968, the defendant stabbed a female patient at least 73 times with a knife causing her death. After a jury trial defendant was convicted of second-degree murder and on November 20, 1968, was sentenced to life imprisonment. This Court granted the defendant...
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