MARTIN, Chief Justice.
This appeal is taken from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing the petition of appellant for a writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane.
In the year 1923 the appellant was brought to trial in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. His defense was insanity...
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