Apgar v. Beauter

This is a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the respondents from prohibiting the petitioner from having the custody and care of her child while she is an inmate in the Tioga County Jail.

Petitioner, Kathleen Apgar, is presently confined in the Tioga County Jail awaiting trial on a charge of murder. She was first admitted to the jail on February 3,1973 and on August 16, *4401973 she gave birth to a baby boy in the Tioga General Hospital. While in the hospital, the Sheriff refused to allow Mrs. Apgar to see or care for her child and this court, on an order to show canse, temporarily…