Department of Social Welfare v. Genereux

This is a petition brought by the director of social welfare on the authority of G. L. 1956, §§26-4-3 and' 26-4-4. It seeks to have the respondent judicially examined as a condition precedent to the issuance of an order transferring him from the adult correctional institutions to> the ward for the criminal insane. Pursuant to the prayer of the petition, a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum was *335issued, and the respondent was produced at a hearing before the presiding justice of the superior court. The cause is before us on the respondent’s appeal from the decision of the presiding justice…