Case Summary

After Henry E. Smith was arrested on the charges of burglary and larceny, his mother Florence petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. She claimed that Henry was insane and requested that he be reinstitutionalized in Lincoln's insane asylum. Months later, Florence requested that the cause be dismissed, which the Court accepted.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Burglary and larceny

Sites of significance

• Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Outcome

Petition withdrawn

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #14: Jan. 1895-May 1895, p. 133-134; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #17: May 1895-October 1895, p. 12; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket 13, p. 290; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 5 Complete Record 132, p. 72-74

Source material(s)

Journal | Docket | Complete Record

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Institutionalization

People

• Smith, Henry E. (bound party)
• Smith, Florence (petitioner)
• Miller, Fred A. (respondent)
• Miller, Fred A. (responding party)
• Miller, Fred A. (holding party)
• Waters, Frank R. (authority ordering detention)
• Cornish, Albert J. (petitioner attorney)
• Lamb, Edwin M. (petitioner attorney)
• Holmes, Edward P. (judge)

• Additional parties

  Hawley, Ezra S. (complainant)

  Baker, E. (clerk)

  Hoxie, Charles W. (deputy)