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EX PARTE DeMARCOS

No. 2914.

65 F.Supp. 231 (1946)

Ex parte DeMARCOS.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

April 4, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Laughlin, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Edward M. Curran, U. S. Atty., and John P. Burke, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

MORRIS, Justice.

The petitioner by writ of habeas corpus seeks release from custody of Dr. Winfred Overholser, Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, to which hospital he was committed by an order of this Court, dated May 14, 1940, having been found to be of unsound mind, pursuant to the provisions of law for such determination in the District of Columbia. Previously the petitioner had been transferred from the Provincial Mental Hospital at Ponoka, Province...

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