Following appellant's escape, he was discharged from the rolls of the hospital where he had been temporarily committed. The Court of Appeals was correct, therefore, in dismissing appellant's amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground of mootness, because appellant was voluntarily absent from the hospital from which he sought release.
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