In Re Craft

The sexual psychopath act, Laws • 1949, c. 314, does not provide and was not intended to provide that a person concerning whom a petition has been filed under section 3 shall be notified of the petition or be heard thereon before the Court’s entry of an order appointing an examining board to ascertain whether he is a sexual psychopath (s. 4).

The sole authority to file a petition requesting the Court to conduct an inquiry as to whether a person is a sexual psychopath is vested by statute in the county solicitor (s. 3). Under some circumstances, he is required to do so (s. 3 I); under others he…