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DODD v. HUGHES

No. 4771.

398 P.2d 540 (1965)

Monte Dean DODD, Appellant, v. Dr. Lowell R. HUGHES, Director of the Nevada State Hospital, Reno, Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

January 29, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl F. Martillaro, of Carson City, for Appellant.

Harvey Dickerson, Attorney General, and C.B. Tapscott, Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, and William J. Raggio, District Attorney, Washoe County, Reno, for Respondent.

THOMPSON, Justice.

By a habeas corpus application addressed to the Second Judicial District Court, Dodd sought his release from the Nevada State Hospital (NRS 433.040).1 He had been committed to that institution as a mentally ill person by order of the Fourth Judicial District Court. At the habeas hearing, the Superintendent of the Nevada State Hospital gave his opinion that Dodd, though a sociopath, was not psychotic, and therefore not...

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