Kaufman v. Court of Appeal

On his not guilty pleas, defendant Echols was found guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter charged as having been committed on March 14, 1974. But on his subsequent trial upon his pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity, he was found not guilty, according to Penal Code section 1026. He was thereupon committed, as provided by section 1026, to a "state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered."