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IN RE HOFMANN

Docket No. 5397.

131 Cal.App.2d 758 (1955)

281 P.2d 96

In re BETTY SHORT HOFMANN, on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

March 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon W. Levoy and Leonard F. Herzog for Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and Richard L. Riemer, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

THE COURT.

Upon petition of one of the attorneys for Betty Short Hofmann representing that the latter is confined at Kimball Sanitarium in Los Angeles County as a mental patient under an order of commitment of the superior court, we issued a writ of habeas corpus to which return has been filed and upon which a hearing has been held. [1] We conclude that the petitioner should be ordered released because of irregularities in the proceedings leading up to...

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