People Ex Rel. Keith v. Keith

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County which found the respondent, Glenn Keith, in need of mental treatment and ordered him hospitalized at the Elgin State Hospital. A petition which alleged that he was in need of mental treatment and requested his emergency admission to a mental hospital was filed by his son. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 91 Já, pars. 8 — 1 through 8 — 6.) The public defender, representing the respondent, requested a jury trial. Section 8 — 6 of the Mental Health Code provided for a jury “of six persons, at least one of whom shall be a physician…