POWERS, Justice.
This is a petition brought by the director of social welfare on the authority of G.L. 1956, §§ 26-4-3 and 26-4-4. It seeks to have the respondent judicially examined as a condition precedent to the issuance of an order transferring him from the adult correctional institutions to the ward for the criminal insane. Pursuant to the prayer of the petition, a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum was issued, and the respondent was produced at...
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