TATE CASE
Sanity Test Refused
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LOS ANGELES, March 20.
Charles Manson, accused of being the mastermind behind the Sharon Tate murders, yesterday dismissed his Courtappointed lawyer when the lawyer tried to have a psychiatrist appointed to test Manson's sanity.
Judge William Keene, setting a trial date for Manson and three other defendants for April 20, agreed that Manson could have his own lawyer friend, Ronald Hughes, as his attorney.
The portly, bearded Hughes, aged 35, admitted he was a friend of Mansons and said the case would be his first criminal trial since graduating in 1967. At one point in the hearing, Manson lurched forward from his chair and threatened to throw a paperback volume of the United States Constitution at the judge. Then with a grimace of disgust he threw it into a wastepaper basket. “I was going to throw this at you but 1 didn't want to hurt you so I threw it in the wastepaper basket,” he said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 11
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