State v. Tugas

The prosecuting attorney for Yakima county seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the superior court for that county from proceeding with a jury trial for the purpose of determining whether Julian Tugas has become sane since his commitment to the criminally insane ward at the penitentiary and is not liable to a recurrence of mental unsoundness or relapse, and is a safe person to be at large.

Tugas was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. The jury also found that he was not insane at the time of the trial, but that there was “such likelihood of a relapse or recurrence of the insane…