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IN THE MATTER OF MENTAL CONDITION OF WARD M.

No. 13809.

533 P.2d 896 (1975)

In the Matter of the Mental Condition of WARD M., Ward M., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

April 4, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Littlefield, Salt Lake County Bar Legal Services, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

R. Paul Van Dam, Salt Lake County Atty., Richard S. Shepherd, Deputy Salt Lake County Atty., Salt Lake City, for respondent.

HENRIOD, Chief Justice:

Appeal from an order of the trial court, after a full hearing, where four psychiatric doctors whose competencies never were challenged unanimously recommended hospitalization to help, not dungeon Ward M. a mental problem. Affirmed.

The record quite clearly, without equivocation, according to the clear, convincing, uncontroverted evidence reflected in the record, predicates mercy, not incarceration for the subject. Nonetheless...

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