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MATTER OF SCOTT

No. 15767-CA.

438 So.2d 728 (1983)

In the Matter of the Commitment of Roy Tatum SCOTT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Culpepper, Teat & Caldwell by James D. Caldwell, Jonesboro, for respondent-appellant, Roy Tatum Scott.

John C. Blake, Dist. Atty., Jonesboro, for State of Louisiana-appellee.

Before PRICE, MARVIN and SEXTON, JJ.

MARVIN, Judge.

Scott appeals his judicial commitment under the Mental Health Law, LRS 28:1 et seq., to the Central Louisiana State Hospital, contending that he should have not been committed to a particular institution, that the Mental Retardation Law (LRS 28:380 et seq., effective August 1, 1983) should apply to him instead, and that in any event, the evidence taken at the hearing does not meet the statutory burden of proof under the Mental Health Law.

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