The People v. Fish

We have granted leave to appeal in this cause to decide whether a person who is confined in the psychiatric division of the penitentiary as a criminal sexual psychopath under section 8 of “An Act in relation to the Illinois State Penitentiary” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 108, par. 112) may have a review of his commitment proceeding although he has not filed a recovery petition under the act.

Clark Fish, an inmate of the psychiatric division of the penitentiary, filed a petition in the Appellate Court, Fifth Judicial District. In the petition he states that he was sentenced to the penitentiary…