Roberts v. Grigsby

Banke, Chief Judge.

On December 12, 1979, Otis Reed, Jr., was charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault after he stabbed another individual several times and then attempted to kill a police officer called to the scene of the stabbing. He was adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the assaults and was involuntarily committed at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia, from January 17, 1980, until September 12, 1980, when he was transferred to West Georgia Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. '

On December 17, 1980, Donald P. Grigsby, Ph.D., Chief of the…