Miller v. Superintendent of Spring Grove State Hospital

This is an application for leave to appeal from the refusal of a writ of habeas corpus directed to Judge Frederick L. Cobourn of the Circuit Court for Harford County. It appears that the petitioner has filed ten prior applications for this writ, resulting in two hearings and eight refusals.

On November 5, 1941, petitioner was arraigned before Honorable Eugene O’Dunne, Associate Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, on a charge of assault with intent to kill. The Court determined that the petitioner (defendant in that case) was insane and he was committed to Spring Grove State Hospital.

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