People ex rel. Stock v. Terrence

Chief Judge Desmond.

These are two habeas corpus proceedings, heard separately and dismissed after the hearings by two Special Term orders, both of which were unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division on the same day. The appeal here is taken as of right from both orders on the assumption that a constitutional question is involved (Civ. Prac. Act, § 588, subd. 1, par. [a]). We may treat relator’s two habeas corpus petitions as if they were one pleading in which it is alleged that his confinement and restraint in a State mental hospital is violative of his constitutional and other rights…