State ex rel. Fuller v. Mullinax

LEEDY, Judge.

This original proceeding in mandamus to compel the admission of a mentally ill individual as a patient in a state mental hospital has been brought as a test case to determine the constitutionality of a recently enacted statute which, although it authorizes the use in certain situations of a revamped and greatly modified form of judicial proceeding, introduces into our jurisprudence other new and radically different procedures governing the hospitalization of the mentally ill. H.B. 355, Laws ’53, p. -, Sections 202.780 to 202.870 RSMo 1949, V.A.M,S.

There is no dispute as to the…