Matter of Application of Harcourt
California Court of Appeal
APPLICATION for Writ of Habeas Corpus originally made to the District Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
The petitioner was, by a judge of the superior court of the county of Sonoma, adjudged to be an insane person and thereupon ordered committed to a state hospital for the insane in this state, and, claiming that the court was without legal authority to order the commitment, she has applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus and asks that thus she be released from the restraint of her personal liberty following the said order of commitment.
‘1 The power of the superior courts or the judges thereof to examine or try and commit insane persons to the hospitals for the insane,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State Commission in Lunacy v. EldridgeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1908
3Cited by3 opinions
- Salinger v. SuperintendentCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1955
- In Re HofmannCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1955
- In Re GavinCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926