COM. ex rel. TATE, v. SHOVLIN.


205 Pa.Super. 370 (1965)

Commonwealth ex rel. Tate, Appellant, v. Shovlin.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otis Tate, appellant, in propria persona.

Joseph M. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., First Assistant District Attorney, and James C. Crumlish, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

Before ERVIN, P.J., WRIGHT, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, JACOBS, and HOFFMAN, JJ. (FLOOD, J., absent).


OPINION BY MONTGOMERY, J., April 15, 1965:

Relator-appellant is a patient at the Farview State Hospital, having been committed there on August 22, 1963, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County following its receipt of a report from a commission consisting of two doctors and a lawyer which it had appointed to investigate the condition of relator. The commission reported that, "Relator was an abnormal...

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