SCHOCK v. THOMAS

No. 81-92.

625 S.W.2d 521 (1981)

Carlyle SCHOCK, Appellant, v. Dr. James THOMAS, Commissioner, Mental Health Services, Arkansas State Hospital, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Central Arkansas Legal Services by Griffin J. Stockley, Jr., and Marsha Yowell, Little Rock, for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Nelwyn Leone Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


HAYS, Justice.

Petitioner seeks his release from the Arkansas State Hospital by writ of habeas corpus from the Pulaski Chancery Court. Having been found incapable of assisting in his own defense, he was committed by the Union Circuit Court on July 29, 1980, and at the same time acquitted of charges of sexual abuse because of mental disease. The commitment found petitioner to be a danger to himself or to other persons or property.

Appellant's petition for habeas...

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