Order affirmed, without costs.
Jurisdiction is inherent in the State over persons within its limits who have been deprived of the use of their mental faculties. It is the duty of the State to protect the community and the mentally ill from their own acts. If insane, their detention is sanctioned under the police power of the State. A mentally ill person may be deprived of his liberty and, if once adjudged to be insane, that person has been deprived of no constitutional...
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