KIMBALL v. PELOSI

M. P. No. 1542.

192 A.2d 267 (1963)

Lee Thompson KIMBALL v. John J. PELOSI, M.D., Acting Superintendent, State Hospital for Mental Diseases.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moore, Virgadamo, Boyle & Lynch, Joseph R. Fogarty, for petitioner.

J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General, Corinne P. Grande, Special Counsel, for respondent.


JOSLIN, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the acting superintendent of the state hospital for mental diseases. The petitioner, a person awaiting trial on six criminal indictments, was confined in the criminal insane ward of said hospital at the time of the filing of his petition pursuant to an order of the presiding justice of the superior court entered under G.L. 1956, §§ 26-4...

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