B. J. B. v. District Court of Oklahoma County Ex Rel. Wallace

SIMMS, Justice:

Petitioner was involuntarily ordered committed to a private hospital as a mentally ill person on petition filed by her mother. Through her counsel, she sought Habeas Corpus in this Court alleging she had been deprived of due process of law because she had not been afforded the statutory right of jury trial because the trial court had combined the Commissioner’s examination with the judicial hearing on the petition. The day before habeas corpus was to be heard in this Court, petitioner was discharged from confinement.

It is argued that habeas corpus is no longer available to…