Arkansas State Hospital v. Goslee

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is an attempt by the State Hospital to collect accumulated charges for the maintenance of one of its patients. In 1971 Inez Boxer, charged with first-degree murder, was committed by the circuit court to the State Hospital for 30 days’ observation. Upon the hospital staff’s finding that Mrs. Boxer was insane, the circuit court permanently committed her to the State Hospital on April 26, 1971. She is still a patient there. The murder charge was dismissed by the circuit court on April 30, 1971. In 1972 the Garland Probate Court found Mrs. Boxer to be incompetent…