Colston v. Youmans

Hawkins, Justice.

Mrs. Eliza Moore Colston filed a habeas corpus proceeding against the sheriff and jailor of Emanuel County, Georgia, alleging that her husband, C. T. Colston Sr., was being illegally restrained of his liberty by the defendants by being incarcerated in the common jail of Emanuel County; that, on June 7, 1951, C. T. Colston Sr. was duly adjudged insane by a commission in Washington County, Georgia, and was on the same date committed to the Milledgeville State Hospital for the Insane at' Milledgeville, Georgia, where he remained confined until on or about September 14, 1951,…