Clark v. Matthews

Mrs. Jolinnie Culpepper, feme sole, applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus to have M. D. Clark, who, she alleged, was illegally restrained of his liberty by H. H. Matthews, sheriff of Uvalde county, and Dr. W. J. Johnson, superintendent of the San Antonio State Hospital, brought before the court. The writ was granted. The sheriff answered that he, at one time, had Clark in his custody, but had placed him in the custody of Dr. W. J. Johnson, superintendent of the San Antonio State Hospital for the Insane, under and by virtue of a commitment in a case in which said Clark had…