Winfred Overholser, Superintendent, St. Elizabeths Hospital v. Frederick C. Lynch

BASTIAN, Circuit Judge,

with whom WILBUR K. MILLER, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN, WASHINGTON, DANAHER and BURGER, Circuit Judges, concur.

On November 6, 1959, appellee [defendant in the trial court] came before the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia on informations charging *390two violations of the bad check law, § 22-1410, D.C.Code (1951). Pursuant to § 24-301 (a), D.C.Code (Supp. VIII, 1960), the trial judge ordered appellee committed to District of Columbia General Hospital for mental observation, and appellee entered that hospital the same day. A report from the hospital was received…