PER CURIAM.
By this habeas corpus proceeding the appellant seeks his release from Virginia's Southwestern State Hospital, where he has been confined since 1945. At the time of his original commitment he was charged with attempted murder, for which offense he has not been tried because of the determination of insanity.
In 1953, he filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Smyth County, Virginia, in which he alleged he was then sane and by which he sought his...
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