People Ex Rel. Stolofsky v. Superintendent of State Institution

The return to the writ of habeas corpus herein pleads a commitment by the county judge of Onondaga county as authority for the detention of the relator. The commitment, dated November 15, 1925, shows that the relator, “ arraigned, indicted for or con victed of the crime of Vagrancy,” was twenty-five years of age and had been certified as a mentally defective person by two duly qualified examiners of mental defect. The certificate states that the relator had been arrested and convicted three times for annoying little girls;.that he was, among other things, easily angered, excitable, impulsive,…