HOLTZOFF, District Judge.
This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus by a patient in Saint Elizabeths Hospital,—a mental institution.
The petitioner was committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital under the following circumstances. She was tried in the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions on a charge of assault. The Court found her not guilty on the ground of insanity. She had not interposed this defense, but the Court reached its...
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