Show JAILED AFTER ACQUITTAL Hard Luck of Washington Murderer Who Made Use of the In Insanity Insanity Insanity sanity Dodge Washington March 18 The supreme court of the United States today re reversed reversed reversed versed the decision of the United States circuit court for the western district of Washington in the case of Sheriff of Lewis county Washington vs Thomas Brown Brown was tried In the local court on the charge of murder but was acquitted on the plea of insanity He Immediately afterward and without inquiry was jailed on the order of the court He appealed the case to the state supreme court and when he failed taIled to secure see ro relief took his case to the United States circuit court which granted him Mm a writ of habeas corpus on the tho ground that he was en entitled entitled entitled titled to a hearing and in the absence of ot such proceedings his second commit commitment commItment commitment ment had been without due process of law la wand and In violation of ot the federal con constitution constitution After that decision the sheriff brought the case to the supreme court The opinion was by Justice Harlan who said that the case was not one warrant warrantIng warrantIng warranting Ing Interference by the federal circuit court |