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MATTER OF SALEM

Nos. 7626DC278 to 281.

228 S.E.2d 649 (1976)

31 N.C. App. 57

In the matter of Mary Louise SALEM. In the matter of Clyde McWHIRTER. In the matter of Leon MILES. In the matter of Audrey HOLT.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 6, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. Isaac T. Avery, III, Raleigh, for the State.

Asst. Public Defender James Fitzgerald, Charlotte, for Clyde McWhirter, Leon Miles, Audrey Holt and Mary Louise Salem, respondents-appellants.

ARNOLD, Judge.

Under the statute as it existed prior to June 1974 a person could be involuntarily committed when determined "by reason of the commission of overt acts [that] the person is violent and of imminent danger to himself or others, or is gravely disabled." [G.S. 122-58.6(a) (1973)]. The present statute provides,

"To support a commitment order, the court is required to find, by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence, that the respondent is mentally...

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