Legal Opinion
Donald Ragsdale v. Winfred Overholser, Superintendent, St. Elizabeths Hospital
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 19, 1960No. 15437_1PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURGER, Circuit Judge.
Appeal at Government expense with court appointed counsel was allowed by order of the District Court to review that court’s action dismissing appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner has been confined in St. Eliza-beths Hospital under D.C.Code 1951 § 24-301 (Supp. VIII 1960).
On September 17, 1957, appellant, charged with robbery, was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The testimony of three eyewitnesses showed appellant and an accomplice had committed a robbery, armed with guns. Appellant’s defense was threefold: that he was somewhere else at the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Leland v. OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Durham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Greenwood v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Tatum v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Russell E. Carter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by111 opinions
- Lynch v. OverholserSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- United States v. Archie W. BrawnerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Gerald C. Bolton v. David W. Harris, Acting Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Charles C. Rouse v. Dale C. Cameron, Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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