Superior Court of Pennsylvania January 25, 1945, 327 Misc. Docket 5 (Com. Ex Rel. Mulligan v. Smith, Warden)

We have given this petition for writ of habeas corpus earnest and careful attention. The point involved is whether a convict, serving a sentence for burglary in a county jail, who, on petition of the warden, is committed as an insane criminal to a State Hospital for the Insane, after an examination by two physicians appointed by the court, under the Mental Health Act of July 11, 1923, P.L.