Barbee v. Kolb, Superintendent

Appellant, through habeas corpus proceedings, sought to obtain his discharge from the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, where he was confined as a patient by order of the Probate Court of Pulaski county. His prayer for relief was predicated upon the following allegations set out in the petition: (1) that he was then and at all times had been sane; (2) that the proceedings of the Probate Court committing him to the State Hospital were void for the reasons that (a) such proceedings were conducted in the absence of appellant and without his knowledge because he was not given notice of the…