State v. Kern

On June 28, 1922, an affidavit was made against relatrix by a deputy sheriff of the parish of Jefferson, charging her with the murder of Charles- Mann. She was arrested and placed in jail. ■ No warrant was issued for her arrest, as far as the record in this case discloses.

On July 7, 1922, the district attorney of the Tvyenty-Eighth judicial district filed a complaint under oath, designated as a petition, charging that relatrix, then incarcerated in jail on a charge of murder, was “violently insane,” and that it was necessary that she be confined in an institution established by the state for…