In Re Scott

Tom Scott is held in custody by the sheriff of Yolo County under an adjudication by the judge of the superior court of said county that he is insane. For a variety of alleged reasons, he claims that the restraint of his person under the adjudication so made is illegal, and his attorney has petitioned this court for an order releasing him from custody through the agency of a writ of habeas corpus.

It appears that on the first day of September, 1921, one Neal Chalmers filed an affidavit with the clerk of said superior court charging said Scott with being dangerously insane. The affidavit, after first alleging that the said Scott is insane, and so far disordered in mind “as to endanger the health, person or the property of himself and others,” proceeds:

Upon the foregoing affidavit, an inquisition was, on the seventh day of September, 1921, conducted before the judge of the superior court, resulting in an adjudication that said Scott was insane, or, to employ in part the language of the adjudication itself, “so far disordered in mind as to endanger health, person and property, and that it is dangerous for life, health, person and property for such person to be at large, and that…