Myers v. Halligan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from tire District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Habeas corpus by Charles Myers against O. P. Halligan, Warden, and another. Erom an adverse judgment, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
On November 21, 1914, the petitioner herein was brought before a United States commissioner for trial, on a charge of obtaining money under fálse pretenses, and, having entered a plea of insanity, the trial proceeded. The jury impaneled in the cause found that Myers was insane at the time, and he was ac*421cordingly committed to the Morningside Sanitarium, at Portland, Or., on May 6, 1915. He escaped from that institution in June, and was next in evidence at Tanana,. Alaska, in July, 1915. He was later arrested and put on trial for the offenses of which he was convicted.…
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