IN RE CRAFT

No. 4320.

99 N.H. 287 (1954)

IN RE EARL L. CRAFT.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided December 15, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General, Elmer T. Bourque, Law Assistant and Atlee F. Zellers, county solicitor (Mr. Bourque orally), for the State.

Willoughby A. Colby (by brief and orally), for the defendant.


GOODNOW, J.

The sexual psychopath act, Laws 1949, c. 314, does not provide and was not intended to provide that a person concerning whom a petition has been filed under section 3 shall be notified of the petition or be heard thereon before the Court's entry of an order appointing an examining board to ascertain whether he is a sexual psychopath (s. 4).

The sole authority to file a petition requesting the Court to conduct an inquiry as to whether...

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