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§22-1005.
§22-1005.
If, after his delivery to the warden for execution, there is good
reason to believe that a defendant under judgment of death has become
insane, the warden must call such fact to the attention of the
district attorney of the county in which the prison is situated, whose
duty is to immediately file in the district or superior court of such
county a petition stating the conviction and judgment and the fact
that the defendant is believed to be insane and asking that the
question of his sanity be inquired into. Thereupon, the court must at
once cause to be summoned and impaneled from the regular jury list a
jury of twelve persons to hear such inquiry.
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