Lutz v. Superintendent of Spring Grove State Hospital

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus. The record shows that petitioner was committed to Spring Grove Hospital on the medical certificates of two doctors. See Sections 1 and 30, Article 59, 1951 Code. Petitioner has had three sanity hearings in the past two years. See Section 20, Article 59, 1951 Code. Petitioner’s present contention seems to be that the writ should issue as a matter of right. Section 7, Article 42, 1951 Code provides, in effect, that there is no right of appeal from a denial of the writ unless the petitioner is detained “as a…