Legal Opinion
Matter of Valdez
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided September 5, 1975No. 10037PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTOYA, Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Bernalillo County District Court which resulted in the involuntary civil commitment of defendants, Albert Garcia and George Valdez, pursuant to § 34-2-5, N. M.S.A., (Supp.1973).
In June 1959, a jury found George Valdez unable “to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him or to comprehend his own condition in reference to such proceedings and to make a rational defense, and that the defendant is an insane person or lunatic; * * He was ordered to the New Mexico State Penitentiary. On November 27, 1961, Mr.…
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