Warner v. State

Otis, Justice.

These proceedings have been instituted by petitioner to obtain her release from the state hospital at Moose Lake where.she has been confined following her acquittal of murder in the first degree on the grounds of insanity. The trial court held that the petitioner had not proved by a fair preponderance of the evidence that no person would be endangered, by her release, and accordingly denied relief. We reverse and remand for further proceedings in the trial court. . \,

On September 13, 1972, the petitioner Lorraine Warner shot and killed her former husband, Nathán Shapiro, in the…