UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

No. 88.

16 F.Supp. 126 (1936)

UNITED STATES ex rel. GROVE v. JACKSON.

District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

September 12, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller A. Johnson, of Lewisburg, Pa., for relator.

Harry M. Showalter, of Lewisburg, Pa., for respondent.


WATSON, District Judge.

The relator, Merrill A. Grove, filed in this court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging his illegal confinement at a state hospital for the insane, located at Danville, Pa., and belonging to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The material allegations of his petition are:

"That no ground of detention is alleged, to the knowledge of your petitioner, unless it be a certain order for commitment made by the Court of Quarter...

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