In re Janes
New York Supreme Court
On habeas corpus, Adrian Janes was produced by Doctor J. Edward Turner, superintendent of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, before Justice Balcom, at his chambers in Binghamton, in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus issued by said justice, and served on said Turner.
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On habeas corpus, Adrian Janes was produced by Doctor J. Edward Turner, superintendent of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, before Justice Balcom, at his chambers in Binghamton, in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus issued by said justice, and served on said Turner. It appeared by the return to the writ, that Janes was received into the New York State Inebriate Asylum at Binghamton, as a patient, in November, 1865, and that he was sent there and detained therein by said superintendent, by the order and commitment of W. H. Bobertson, County Judge of Westchester county, which order and…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was delivered :
Balcom, J.
Power was conferred in 1857, upon the Hew York State Inebriate Asylum, “ to receive and retain all inebriates who enter said asylum, either voluntarily or by the order of the committee of any habitual drunkard ” (Laws of 1857, vol. 1, p. 431). And it was further provided, that “ the committee of the person of any habitual drunkard, duly appointed under existing laws, may, in his or their discretion, commit such habitual drunkard to the custody of the trustees or other proper officers of said asylum, *449there to remain until he shall be discharged…
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