State v. Eastman

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition to vacate an order by which the petitioner was committed to the state custodial school as a feeble-minded person.

Vava Eastman, a young woman twenty-four years of age, was, after a hearing on March 21, 1928, found to be a feeble-minded person, and ordered committed to the state custodial school. April 4,1928, she petitioned the court to vacate the order of commitment, claiming that there had been certain irregularities in the proceeding.

Section 4667, Eem. Comp. Stat., provides that adults under fifty years of age who may be determined to be…