Like the trial court, we refer to plaintiff as petitioner and to defendant as respondent. Petitioner is confined to the security hospital, part of the men's state reformatory at Anamosa of which respondent is warden. On August 18, 1965, petitioner filed in the Jones district court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus claiming his confinement to be illegal because he had not been convicted of...
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