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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Clifton Chamberlayne, Appellant, v. W. Cecil Johnston, as Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Respondent.
   Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Clinton County which dismissed petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. Upon the authority of People ex rel. Brown v. Johnston (9 N Y 2d 482) and the consent of the Attorney-General, the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and the matter remitted to Special Term for a hearing to test relator’s sanity. Bergan, P. J., Gibson, Herlihy, Reynolds and Taylor, JJ., concur.