GENTILE, PETITIONER


339 Mass. 319 (1959)

159 N.E.2d 86

OLIMBIO GENTILE, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul V. Power, for the petitioner.

John Warren McGarry, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus by one committed as an insane person has been treated by the single justice also as an application for discharge under G.L.c. 123, § 91 (as amended through St. 1950, c. 684, § 91). The petitioner is held at Bridgewater State Hospital under an order of commitment to Boston State Hospital entered on July 31, 1952, in the Probate...

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