UNITED STATES v. McNEILL


157 F.Supp. 882 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. RuthARNUM, Petitioner, v. John F. McNEILL, M.D., as Director of Matteawan State Hospital, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth Farnum, petitioner, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., for respondent, Isadore Siegel, Asst. Atty. Gen., in charge of Div. of Mental Hygiene, of counsel.


LEVET, District Judge.

Ruth Farnum, an inmate of Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, has petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus.

Upon the initial petition, a handwritten letter dated June 14, 1957, the application for the writ was denied since it did not appear that the petitioner had exhausted her state remedies or that the procedure followed by state officials in obtaining her commitment was violative of due process. However, by...

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