Eatman v. State

Appellant was indicted in Coahoma county for burglary, and upon his trial was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. After his arrest and pending trial, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed seeking to have the accused returned to the East Mississippi Insane Hospital. From an adverse judgment on that petition, an appeal was taken to this court, which resulted in an affirmance, Dr. M. J. L. Hoye, Supt., v. State, 152 So. 644. The opinion there states most of the facts bearing upon the question now before us.

In response to the indictment appellant interposed the…