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LAKE v. CAMERON

No. 18809.

364 F.2d 657 (1966)

Catherine LAKE, Appellant, v. Dale C. CAMERON, Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1966.

As Amended September 19, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hyman Smollar, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), with whom Mr. Lawrence S. Schaffner, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Oscar Altshuler, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and FAHY, DANAHER, BURGER, WRIGHT, McGOWAN, TAMM and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges, sitting

On Rehearing en banc

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Appellant is confined in Saint Elizabeths Hospital as an insane person and appeals from denial of release in habeas corpus. On September 29, 1962, when she was sixty years old, a policeman found her wandering about and took her to the D.C. General Hospital.1 On October 11, 1962, she filed in the District Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court transferred her to St. Elizabeths...

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