McAfee v. Commonwealth

On the 5th of April, 1841, Brewer, the son-in-law of McAfee, made affidavit, that he believed that Robert McAfee was of unsound mind, and would be found a lunatic by inquest, “and he further believed that it would be *306difficult to get said McAfee into Court, so that an inquiry could take place as to the state of his mind, particularly if he suspected that that was the object for which he was required to attend.” Upon this affidavit, without notice to McAfee, or any effort to bring him into Court, on the 9th April an inquest was held, and McAfee found to be a lunatic, and that he had been so…