WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents an important question as to the power of the trial judge in habeas corpus cases. It is whether the statute which established a Commission on Mental Health for the District of Columbia made the traditional use of the writ no longer available to persons committed and confined for insanity who have recovered their reason.
Five years ago this court answered that question by holding in a series of three decisions...
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