Fielder v. State

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting an application for temporary mental health services, under which the appellant was ordered committed to the state mental hospital for a period not to exceed 90 days. The appellant perfected this appeal during such confinement but was discharged on March 16,1984, one month prior to the date set for submission.

In her original brief, appellant raised three points of error in which she attacked the constitutionality of the emergency detention provision of the Mental Health Code, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 5547-28 (Vernon…