STATE v. MULLINAX

No. 44094.

269 S.W.2d 72 (1954)

STATE ex rel. FULLER v. MULLINAX.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence R. Brown, Robert B. Fizzell, Jr., John J. Fallon, Kansas City (Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers & Fizzell, Kansas City, of counsel), for relatrix.

Elmore G. Crowe, Alfred M. Mansur, Jefferson City, for respondent.


LEEDY, Judge.

This original proceeding in mandamus to compel the admission of a mentally ill individual as a patient in a state mental hospital has been brought as a test case to determine the constitutionality of a recently enacted statute which, although it authorizes the use in certain situations of a revamped and greatly modified form of judicial proceeding, introduces into our jurisprudence other new and radically different...

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