STATE EX REL. WHITE v. TODT

No. 23271.

475 S.E.2d 426 (1996)

197 W.Va. 334

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Michael S. WHITE, Petitioner Below, Appellant, v. Michael TODT, Administrator, William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital; Ted Johnson, Interstate Compact Administrator, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Respondents Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.T. Weber, III, Weber & Weber, Weston, for Appellant.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, Barbara L. Baxter, Assistant Attorney General, Charleston, for Appellees.


McHUGH, Chief Justice:

The appellant, Michael S. White, appeals the October 16, 1995 order of the Circuit Court of Lewis County which denied him habeas corpus relief. The appellant, who, it is asserted, left a Lincoln, Nebraska psychiatric facility without permission while under involuntary commitment, maintains that he has been illegally detained at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital, a state mental health facility in...

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