IN RE SHAW

Docket No. 4955.

115 Cal.App.2d 753 (1953)

252 P.2d 970

In re DELLA SHAW, on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

February 3, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Marcus for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Ariel C. Hilton, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents.


SHINN, P.J.

Della Shaw seeks release from confinement in Camarillo State Hospital to which she was committed as an insane person by the Municipal Court of Los Angeles County. She was charged with disturbing the peace, and when her case came to trial the court announced that it had a doubt as to her sanity, ordered the criminal proceedings suspended and a trial had as to petitioner's sanity. After a trial to the court defendant was found insane and was committed to...

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