Sease v. South Carolina State Hospital

StuicES, Justice.

The respondent was confined to jail upon a warrant which charged a capital crime. On September 29, 1948, the Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of General Sessions for Richland County on motion of respondent’s counsel committed him to the State Hospital pursuant to Section 6239 of the Code for examination and report upon his mental condition. The superintendent of the hospital under date of October 29, 1948, reported to the Court that the medical staff of the hospital found respondent insane. Thereupon, on the folowing November 3rd, the Court, on motion of the Solicitor,…