Loving v. Hazelwood

The Acts of the Thirty-Third Legislature of 1913, c. 163, in regard to proceedings in lunacy, provide that, upon an affidavit, charging that a certain person is insane, the county judge shall issue a writ for the apprehension of such person and the cause is docketed as an ex parte proceeding on the probate docket of said court. The judge appoints a commission composed of six persons to inquire into the charge of lunacy and in counties of a population of !ass than 5,000, one of the members of the commission shall be a physician; the number of physicians appointed on the commission being…