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State v. Superior Court for Walla Walla County

Washington Supreme Court

Decided November 25, 1930No. 22351PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.

— The relator, as prosecuting attorney for King county, seeks in this court a writ of prohibition restraining the superior court for Walla Walla county from discharging, upon a habeas corpus proceeding commenced in that court, Ruth Garrison from her confinement as a criminally insane person in the department of the criminally insane in the penitentiary of this state in that county; she having been so committed by a judgment of the superior court for King county upon her being found, by a jury in that court, not guilty of the crime of murder because of her insanity.

Relator seeks this relief in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State v. SaffronWashington Supreme Court · 1927
  2. State v. GarrisonWashington Supreme Court · 1926
  3. State ex rel. Thomson v. CliffordWashington Supreme Court · 1919

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Johnson, Dist. Atty. v. AlexanderUtah Supreme Court · 1935
  2. Overholser v. TreiblyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
  3. Raggio v. CampbellNevada Supreme Court · 1964
  4. State v. McCarterCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1977
  5. In Re DuttonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1931

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