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COLSTON v. YOUMANS

17691.

208 Ga. 669 (1952)

68 S.E.2d 898

COLSTON v. YOUMANS, Sheriff, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 29, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. G. Godfrey, Casey Thigpen and Eliza Moore Colston, in propria persona, for plaintiff.

W. H. Lanier, Solicitor-General, and Rountree & Rountree, for defendants.

HAWKINS, Justice.

Mrs. Eliza Moore Colston filed a habeas corpus proceeding against the sheriff and jailor of Emanuel County, Georgia, alleging that her husband, C. T. Colston Sr., was being illegally restrained of his liberty by the defendants by being incarcerated in the common jail of Emanuel County; that, on June 7, 1951, C. T. Colston Sr. was duly adjudged insane by a commission in Washington County, Georgia, and was on the same date committed to the Milledgeville...

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