Hoye v. State

Dr. M. J-. L. Hoye, superintendent of the Bast Mississippi Insane Hospital at Meridian, sued out a writ of habeas corpus seeking to recover, the custody of Boland Eatman, an alleged escape from said East Mississippi Insane Hospital, and who was in jail in Clarksdale, Coahoma county, Mississippi, under an indictment charging him with a felony. It was alleged by Dr. Hoye that Eatman had been adjudged to be insane, and ordered to be confined in said East Mississippi Insane Hospital by the chancery court of Lauderdale county, in 1927, and that he escaped from said institution in April, 1928, and…