Obradovich v. Peterson

FINCH, Judge.

On August 25, 1970, petitioner, charged in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis with murder in the first degree, was found by the court to be not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect excluding responsibility pursuant to § 552.0301 and, in accordance with § 552.040,2 was ordered committed to the custody of the Director of the Division of Mental Diseases and placed in the Fulton State Hospital. In this proceed*828ing petitioner seeks by writ of habeas corpus to be released from confinement in said hospital. We quash.

Petitioner’s amended petition for writ of habeas corpus…