PEO. EX REL. SUDDETH v. REDNOUR

No. 39091.

33 Ill.2d 278 (1965)

211 N.E.2d 281

THE PEOPLE ex rel. PETER W. SUDDETH, Appellant, v. BERT REDNOUR, Superintendent of the Illinois Security Hospital, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. EDWARD JONES, of Blue Island, for appellant.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, (FRED G. LEACH and WILLIAM A. BOMP, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE KLINGBIEL delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal from an order of the circuit court of Randolph County which quashed a writ of habeas corpus and remanded the relator, Peter W. Suddeth, to the custody of respondent, the superintendent of a State hospital. Section 5 of article VI of the Illinois constitution, as amended, gives us jurisdiction to entertain the appeal.

Relator was indicted...

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