Baker v. State

KITE, Justice.

[¶ 1] A police officer found Gary Baker pacing back and forth in the road at the end of an overpass in Gillette: Mr. Baker was sunburned, dehydrated, disheveled, and disoriented. Initially unable to identify himself, he ultimately told the officer his name and that he had walked there from his home in Sheridan. The county attorney filed an application for involuntary hospitalization, and a jury found Mr. Baker was mentally ill. The trial court determined the least restrictive and most therapeutic alternative for Mr. Baker would be hospitalization at the Wyoming State Hospital.…