Downey v. Schrader

Habeas corpus. The petitioner is confined in State Hospital Number 2 for the Insane at St. Joseph as an insane patient, and seeks his release by our writ through his next friend and attorney. He was committed to that institution by the comity court of Jackson County, pursuant to Art. 2, Chap. 51, See’s 9321-9359. We refer to these statutes hereafter as the county court statutes. Petitioner bases his application for the writ solely on the con tention that the statutes are unconstitutional. '

It is asserted that See. 34, Art. VI of the Missouri Constitution vests jurisdiction to hold such lunacy…