Wolonsky v. Balson

This case presents a single issue which is factually simple but vitally important to both the petitioner and society, i. e., whether a person who has been committed to Lima State Hospital under the provisions of R. C. 2945.39, having been acquitted on the sole ground of his insanity of a crime for which he had been indicted, who was actively psychotic at the time of his commitment, who by reason of the administration of psychotrophic drugs has attained a state of complete remission from the symptoms of his psychosis so that he now has the capacity either to know the wrongfulness of his…