GROVES, Justice.
This is an original proceeding brought by the district attorney. The respondent court had ordered that a person, here called the defendant, be sent to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas for a six-week psychiatric evaluation. We issued a rule to show cause why the respondent court had authority to make this order, and we stayed enforcement of the order until we reached a determination under the rule. We now make the rule absolute.
The defendant...
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