In re the Involuntary Commitment of Pilgrim

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

In May 1992 a petition to commit Gary Pilgrim to a mental institution was filed by his mother in the Probate Court of Jefferson County. Following a hearing, the probate court committed Pilgrim to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health. Pilgrim appeals.

On appeal, Pilgrim’s sole assertion is that Alabama’s recently revised civil commitment law, §§ 22-52-1 through -15, Code 1975, is unconstitutional in that it does not meet the minimum standards and procedures mandated in Lynch v. Baxley, 386 F.Supp. 378 (M.D.Ala.1974), as required by the…