Legal Opinion
Overholser v. Boddie
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 10, 1950No. 10473PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents an important question as to the power of the trial judge in habeas corpus cases. It is whether the statute which established a Commission on Mental Health for the District of Columbia made the traditional use of the writ no longer available to persons committed and confined for insanity who have recovered their reason.
Five years ago this court answered that question by holding in a series of three decisions 1 *that the trial judge, although convinced of the sanity of such an applicant for the writ, does not have power to release him…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Dorsey v. GillCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Barry v. HallCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- Overholser v. De MarcosCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Red Canyon Sheep Co. v. IckesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- De Marcos v. OverholserCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1943
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Catherine Lake v. Dale C. Cameron, Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
- Dennis A. Dixon v. Louis Jacobs, Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- Miller v. OverholserCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
- Stewart v. OverholserCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- National Discount Corp. v. O'MellCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1952
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