Bartosik v. People

In 1956 Bartosik was charged in each of two separately filed informations with the crime of taking indecent liberties with the person of a minor child. C.R.S. ’53, 40-2-32. To these charges Bartosik pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Upon trial a jury adjudged him to be insane and pursuant to statute he was thereafter committed to the Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo, C.R.S. ’53, 39-8-4(2).

Pursuant to C.R.S. ’53, 39-8-4(3), Bartosik in 1959 was given a “probationary release” from the Hospital.

In 1962 Bartosik sought a so-called “discharge” from the Hospital. The trial court denied…