In Re Truslowe

Mintz, J. C. C.

Dorothy Truslowe was arrested May 28, 1956- by the Madison (Morris County) police on a “bad check” charge, arraigned before the magistrate of the municipal court, and lodged in the Morris County jail awaiting grand jury action. The following day the warden of the Morris County jail made application for her transfer to and confinement in the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park. The application was supported by the physician’s certificates required pursuant to N. J. S. A. 30:A-29, where insanity is involved.

An order instituting inquiry was duly entered, and proofs taken…