In re Light

The opinion of the court was delivered by

AlleN, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. On January 31, 1938, a judgment was entered by the district court of Cowley county committing the petitioner, M. B. Light, to the state asylum for dangerous insane at Lansing, Kan. The habeas corpus proceedings now before us calls in question the validity of that judgment.

The petitioner, Miles B. Light, was arrested in 1936 and charged in ten counts with the crime of embezzlement. After a preliminary hearing in a justice court he was bound over for trial in the district court of Cowley county.…