IN RE D.B.W.

No. 51186.

616 P.2d 1149 (1980)

In re Mental Health of D.B.W.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

August 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Legal Aid of Western Oklahoma, Inc., Porter H. Morgan, III, and Stan L. Foster, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Andrew M. Coats, Dist. Atty. by James P. Laurence, Asst. Dist. Atty., Oklahoma City, for appellee.


HODGES, Justice.

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court committing the appellant, D.B.W., involuntarily to Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital. It is asserted by D.B.W. that the commitment was in error because he was not afforded the procedural safeguards provided by 43A O.S.Supp. 1977 §§ 54.1, 55.2, and that these provisions, even had they been invoked, are not constitutionally adequate.

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