DUBOIS, PETITIONER


331 Mass. 575 (1954)

120 N.E.2d 920

CLEMENT DUBOIS, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

July 7, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Seligman, (Benjamin A. Friedman with him,) for the petitioner.

Maurice M. Lyons, District Attorney, for the respondent, submitted a brief.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against the superintendent of the State farm at Bridgewater by a person who has been committed for observation to the defective delinquent department of that institution under St. 1953, c. 645. That statute provides, so far as is here material, that where it has been judicially determined that a commitment to a defective delinquent department has been "procedurally...

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