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CROSS v. HARRIS

No. 22420.

418 F.2d 1095 (1969)

Thomas B. CROSS, Appellant, v. David W. HARRIS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edwin A. Williams, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court) for appellant.

Mr. David C. Woll, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and BURGER and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from the dismissal of appellant's habeas corpus petition attacking his confinement in Saint Elizabeths Hospital under the Sexual Psychopath Act, adopted in 1948. 22 D.C.Code §§ 3503-11 (1967).

Appellant was first committed to Saint Elizabeths in 1952, when he was 18 years old, on account of his tendency to indecently expose himself in public. Indecent exposure is ordinarily punishable by a jail sentence of...

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