Reagan v. Powell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Habeas corpus. Before Judge Lewis. Baldwin superior court. October 23, 1905. Hnder regular proceedings instituted before and conducted by the ordinary of Henry county, for the purpose of inquiring into the sanity of I. R. Pair, he was adjudged to be a fit person to be committed to the State Sanitarium.
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Habeas corpus. Before Judge Lewis. Baldwin superior court. October 23, 1905. Hnder regular proceedings instituted before and conducted by the ordinary of Henry county, for the purpose of inquiring into the sanity of I. R. Pair, he was adjudged to be a fit person to be committed to the State Sanitarium. An appeal'to a jury in the superior court was entered in his name on July 14, 1905. Pending appeal Pair was sent-, to and confined in the State Sanitarium, of which institution Dr. T. O. Powell is the superintendent. While Pair was being thus restrained of his liberty, a petition for habeas,…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
(After stating the facts.) The Georgia State Sanitarium is a public institution sustained by the State for the care of such of its citizens as may have become bereft of reason, either temporarily or permanently. In the establishment and maintenance of this benign charitable institution, not only was the protection of the body politic from the violently insane considered, but a means was provided for the treatment by skilled physicians of persons .whose unfortunate mental condition might be improved or cured under the facilities there afforded. Two methods of commitment to the asylum are…
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