COM. ex rel. FRITZ v. FARVIEW ST. HOSP. SUPT.


174 Pa.Super. 609 (1953)

Commonwealth ex rel. Fritz, Appellant, v. Farview State Hospital Superintendent.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

December 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.B. Roads, with him Harold L. Paul, for appellant.

David W. Bechtel, Assistant District Attorney, with him Malcolm D. Reeves, Assistant District Attorney and Robert M. Harris, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, ROSS, GUNTHER, WRIGHT and WOODSIDE, JJ.


OPINION BY GUNTHER, J., December 29, 1953:

The relator petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking his release from a mental institution. After a hearing, the court below denied the petition and relator has appealed.

After his arrest in 1951 on a charge of enticing a minor for immoral purposes, the relator was examined on court order by two doctors, declared insane, and committed to the Farview State...

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