Ex Parte Smith

The petitioner, William L. Smith, has brought here on certiorari the record of proceedings before the Pulaski Chancery Court involving his right to be discharged from the United States Veterans’ Hospital No. 78, located near the city of Little Rock.

The petitioner applied to the chancery court for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the superintendent of the hospital, directing the latter to produce petitioner before the court and show cause why he should not be discharged. In the petition for habeas corpus it was alleged that petitioner was “imprisoned and illegally restrained of his liberty…