In re Brown
Washington Supreme Court
Application filed in the supreme court June 13, 1905, for a writ of habeas corpus, on behalf of a petitioner confined under an order of the superior court for Lewis county, Bice, J., entered May 9, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
The petitioner made original application in this court for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to' the sheriff of Lewis county. He asserts that he is unlawfully detained and imprisoned. His petition shows that he was regularly tried in the superior court of said county on the charge of murder in the first degree, to which charge he had interposed the plea of not guilty. The verdict returned was as follows:
“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity.”
Immediately after the return of the verdict, on the 1st day of May, 1905, the trial court ordered the sheriff to return the…
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