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PEOPLE EX REL. POSKIN v. KANKAKEE STATE HOSP.

Gen. No. 11,490.

30 Ill. App.2d 151 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 1

The People of the State of Illinois, ex rel. Homer Poskin, Appellant, v. The Kankakee State Hospital Staff and Superintendent or Manager, Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, Second Division.

April 19, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Green, of Mattoon, for appellant.

Edward P. Drolet, State's Attorney, of Kankakee, for appellee.

SPIVEY, J.

Homer Poskin filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County for a writ of habeas corpus seeking his release from restraint, detention and imprisonment at the Kankakee State Hospital.

His petition alleges his detention to be by virtue of a null and void order of the County Court of Kankakee County; and that he is not now insane or in need of mental treatment or mentally ill, and that he...

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