Three more psychiatrists were named Tuesday to study a 16-year-old St. Bernard parish by accused of shooting and slashing a hunting companion to death.
District Judge Bruce Nunez added them to a lunacy commission studying Frank Chisesi Jr. because findings reported Monday differed from those reported in May of 1960.
At the sanity hearing Tuesday, the three commissioners said they find the boy sane, able to stand trial and able to help in his own defense.
The boy was arrested stepping off a plane in Newark, N. J., and insisting he killed Rhett Blanke, 15, a classmate, in self defense. The killing occurred in a hunting trip near Violet.
PLEADED NOT GUILTY
Chisesi pleaded not guilty and a lunacy commission held in May, 1960, he was psychotic and not able to stand trial. He was sent to East Louisiana State hospital in Jackson. Last March, he was returned to the custody of parish officers.
His attorney, Sam Monk Zel-den, says he is anxious to bring the case to trail because the boy is in solitary confinement.
Attesting to their belief in the boy's sanity Tuesday were the coroner. Dr. A. J. Filizola, and Dr. A. J. Sanchez.
Added to the commission by Judge Nunez were Drs. Gene Usdin, William Weidorn and Edward A. Knight. The commission is to report at a continuance of the hearing at 10:30 a. m. June 26.
PREVIOUS FINDING
Dr. Filizola, who also served on the first commission, said during the 1960 hearing that Chisesi was suffering from a mental derangement which would grow progressively worse, Judge Nunez recalled.
The coroner replied that the boy's improvement was just "one of those cases which occur in psychoses."
