United States of America Ex Rel. William Joseph McGurrin v. John P. Shovlin, Superintendent, Farview State Hospital, Waymart, Pennsylvania

OPINION OF THE COURT

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1963, appellant sent threatening letters to the then President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. McGurrin was arrested and confined temporarily to the Lackawanna County Jail, Scranton, Pennsylvania. During that time the United States Marshal for the Middle District of Pennsylvania applied to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lacka-wanna County for the appointment of a sanity commission in accordance with the Pennsylvania Mental Health Act, 50 P.S. § 1071, et seq. On September 30, 1963, a commission was so appointed. It determined that…