Denton v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment by which Addie Lee Denton was adjudged to he mentally ill, dangerous, uncontrollable and incompetent to manage her own affairs. The record is very unsatisfactory, but a brief narrative statement of the evidence .and the proceedings had was filed and from this and from various uncontroverted statements in the brief we glean the following facts: Addie Lee Denton had completed a temporary thirty-five day commitment for •observation under KIRS 202.120. Thereafter a certificate by two staff physicians of the Kentucky State Hospital was filed in the…