State Ex Rel. Hartmann v. Lund

Nelson, Justice.

Respondent, the director of the Minnesota Security Hospital, appeals from an order of the District Court of Nicollet County entered November 21, 1966, in a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in behalf of relator, John J. Hartmann, a patient in the hospital. The order appealed from directed that respondent release relator from the hospital 30 days after its issuance unless during that time respondent was “otherwise authorized by new warrant obtained through further procedures under the Statutes in such case made and provided.”

In his pro se petition for the writ, relator…