IN RE TRIVENTO

No. 127-72.

312 A.2d 910 (1973)

In re Edward L. TRIVENTO.

Supreme Court of Vermont, Chittenden.

December 4, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Cleary, Barre, for plaintiff.

Patrick J. Leahy, State's Atty., and Paul D. Jarvis, Deputy State's Atty., for the State.

Before BARNEY, SMITH, KEYSER and DALEY, JJ., and GIBSON, Superior Judge.


DALEY, Justice.

On May 12, 1967, the appellant, Edward L. Trivento, entered a plea of guilty in the Chittenden County Court to the charge of manslaughter, a violation of 13 V.S.A. § 2304. The court then ordered the appellant committed to the Vermont State Hospital at Waterbury, Vermont, for the purpose of examination to determine whether he was a psychopathic personality defined at that time as:

[T]hose persons who by a habitual course of misconduct...

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