Hansen v. Haugh

Like the trial court, we refer to plaintiff as petitioner and to defendant as respondent. Petitioner is confined to the security hospital, part of the men’s state reformatory at Anamosa of which respondent is warden. On August 18, 1965, petitioner filed in the J ones district court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus claiming Ms confinement to be illegal because he bad not been convicted of a crime and should have been committed to a state mental health institute rather than to the security hospital at Anamosa.

After taking extensive evidence by both sides, hearing arguments of counsel…