Brickway's Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county : Of October and November Term 1875, No. 191. The proceedings in this case were instituted under an Act “ To provide for the admission of certain classes of the insane into the hospitals for the insane in this Commonwealth,” &c., passsed April 20th 1869; Pamph. L. 78, 2 Br.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county : Of October and November Term 1875, No. 191. The proceedings in this case were instituted under an Act “ To provide for the admission of certain classes of the insane into the hospitals for the insane in this Commonwealth,” &c., passsed April 20th 1869; Pamph. L. 78, 2 Br. Purd. 969. The 6th and 9th sections are as follows :— 6. Insane persons may be placed in a hospital by order of any court or law judge, after the following course of proceedings, namely: On statement in writing of any respectable person that a certain person…
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment was entered in the Supreme Court
2Per curiam
No appeal is given in this case to this court, and consequently we have before us only the record proper, not the evidence.
We can, therefore, examine only the assignments of error touching the record, and not those relating to the evidence. It is very evident from the record this proceeding was under the 6th section of the Act of 20th April 1869, a law passed to regulate the practice in the commitment of insane persons to the hospital of the state. The act materially' modifies former laws on this subject. It is not confined to persons found guilty of…
3Cited by6 opinions
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