Legal Opinion

Finkenbiner v. Dowd

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided October 23, 1952No. 28,809Published

1Opinion of the Court

231 Ind. 416 (1952)

108 N.E.2d 261

FINKENBINER

v.

DOWD, WARDEN, ETC.

No. 28,809.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed October 23, 1952.

Rehearing denied December 5, 1952.

Cuthbertson & Cuthbertson of Peru, and Walter J. Bixler, of Peru, for appellant.

J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General and John Ready O'Connor and William T. McClain, Deputy Attorneys General, for appellee.

BOBBITT, J.

This action arises out of the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by appellant in the LaPorte Circuit Court seeking release from the Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals at Michigan City.

On July 8, 1939,…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Greencastle Township v. BlackIndiana Supreme Court · 1854
  2. State Ex Rel. Kunkel v. Laporte Circuit CourtIndiana Supreme Court · 1936
  3. Witte v. Dowd, WardenIndiana Supreme Court · 1951
  4. Todd v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1951
  5. State Ex Rel. Ferger v. Circuit CourtIndiana Supreme Court · 1949

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