State Ex Rel. Sundberg v. District Court

In May, 1923, in the district court of Hennepin county, the relator, George A. Sundberg, was tried under an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. He was acquitted “on the ground that at the date of the crime alleged” he was insane, and thereupon committed to the asylum for the criminal insane at St. Peter, “to be there held in custody of said institution until thence discharged by competent authority.” In May, 1931, under the statute and on the certificate hereafter dealt with, relator petitioned the district court of Hennepin county for an order discharging him from the…