Molesworth v. Baumel

— The appellant, the petitioner in the court below, was indicted in Washington County in November, 1921, for the crime of arson. The question of his then sanity was raised, and the court proceeded, under Chapter 44, Title XXV, of the Code of 1897 (Chapter 648, Code of 1924), to determine *1294the question. A trial was had to a jury, and a verdict returned that the appellant was then insane; whereupon he was by the court committed to the department for the criminal insane at the men’s reformatory until he became sane. In October, 1923, appellant sued out a writ of habeas corpus under the authority…