Robinson v. Winstead

This is a habeas corpus proceeding which is before us on a writ of error to a final judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke refusing to discharge the petitioner, Reginal Robinson, from the custody of Edgar L. Winstead, sergeant of the city of Roanoke, by whom he is held pending admission to the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded at Petersburg, pursuant to an adjudication that petitioner is feeble-minded and should be confined at that institution.

The gist of the petitioner’s case is that he is a minor of the age of fifteen years, and that his commitment is void because…