KEISER v. SHEPPARD

Nos. 42893, 42904.

194 N.W.2d 286 (1972)

Ronald KEISER, Respondent, v. Dr. Charles SHEPPARD, Medical Director, Minnesota Security Hospital, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Keith Brownell, County Atty., David Naughtin, Asst. County Atty., Hibbing, for appellant.

Gislason, Alsop, Dosland & Hunter, and James Malecki, New Ulm, for respondent.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and OTIS, ROGOSHESKE, and PETERSON, JJ.


OPINION

OTIS, Justice.

This matter is before the court on an alternative writ of prohibition consolidated with an appeal by the state from an order, entered in habeas corpus proceedings, which directs relator's release from a state hospital where he is confined under the so-called psychopathic personality law. The only issue is whether the applicable statute required the probate judge to concur in the findings of the examining doctors that relator was a...

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