Richey v. Baur

LEEDY, Judge.

Petitioner, Lawrence Harris Richey, seeks by habeas corpus to effect his discharge from the custody of respondent, the Superintendent of State Hospitál No. 1 at Fulton, to which institution he was committed by an order of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis made and entered Séptember 30, 1955, in a certain fcriminal case wherein he was charged with, and tried for the crime of robbery in the first degree. Having been acquitted on the sole ground that he was insane at the time of the commission of the offense, and the jury having further found that he had not entirely and…