**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS. b**  **AUSTIN**



### HonorobleL. Yaokeohnq, tmperintendent Uiahit8 Palle 

### Mate Hospital Box mo . 

### Habit8 Palle, Pexar

the disoharge of tary patient,

matter in the the above subject

cted by theBoard all our'roluntary here longer than, emreadmItted by

**this** patient's relatireo do not nor live in Tarroat Couaty,,and the **patient** ia **not** here, Idoubt:if Sbare )uriodiotiOn to try the 6a8e in **this** a0untf.f

*Our next letter =a8 mriiten teYr.'@.s. Cloyd of iiereford,Texas, who is thenfather of our patient, orrd amk **him** toha90 hla **daugh** 

### ter re-committed by jury trial. Judge Ored :Ponorable h. Yaokeohney -page 2

X.Baird of Do& BmithCOunty informs
us that rinse hias ,Cloyddid.AOt locom**pany** her S&her te Deaf smith County rhen he established resideAOe there, that he rtiuldhare no jurisdiction in tgi4 oaae.

**We are**  **at** a **loss PI**  towhat aounty should 

### try this patient. lot only hare me had this trouble with Miae 

### Cloyd'u **ease, but**  with several of our othsr roluntary patienta.@

Xour inquiry in onsrered by the prori,aions of mtiole gddla, kkeviwhiCivil tstatutee, Vernon*4 Codlfioation, as follorr:

*If information in **writing under**  oath be given **to** 

### anycounty Judge that any person in his oounty, not 

### aharged with a **ariminal** oitenae, is a person o? unsound mind, and 

### thatthe welfare OP either auoh person or any other person er pwaons requires that he 

### be placed under restraitlt,and euch county Judge shall believe such iA?ormatioA tobe 

### true,he shall forthwith issue a **war** rant f'orthe apprOheAsiOA oi eubh **per** BOA, or, if such like information be given to any **justPoe of**  **the** peaoe IA such oouAtf, mid justiae may issue a rarrant for the appreheaaioA of said person, making said ooA@aint andmrraAt returnable to,tho oouaty court of said aouaty, and~said county judge in either event shall fix a time andplaoe for thehearing and determination of thematter, either in **tore** tiaieor in vacation, rbioh plaoe shall be either at the court house of the county, or at theresideme of the person named, or at **any** other place in the county, Abe the oounty judgemay deem best for such hearing. **Potioe** at the time, place aAd

: (I:., . Honorable L.ka&eahUe$ - p&i 3 : 

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purpose oi ruohheariag shall be served upon tha person charged, such Aotloe to be Under thehaad 4nd seal of theoouAt9 olerk or.eaid oounty, and served and returned by th0 Sheriff or a COAtStable Of such coUnty, and thereturn to stat.4 the time and place of aemioe~ 8uoh notite 4hall be 8erred not 1404.than three da94 prior to theday ofhearing.'

This Seation, when eonaidered as it should be in the.light ofthe rsaaining-portion of theArtiole, indicrate4that theproseeding should be iA4tituted and maintained in the oounty wherein the person: 4ought to be **adjudged** IS theA to

### be found.

The juriediotion is thusgiven to the OOUAtp wherein 4uob per4on may **be** round, in the interest of expediting thematter not only for the sake oi the inditidual primarily ooncerned, but likexi4e of other4 as well.

IA Opinion go,-O-4988this Department held that #the per4oA mought tob4 charged with lunae9 must be phy4ioally preeent within the county (of'the PrOCeediAg) at the time of themaking or the 1Aformation.s

It 14 not, therefore, a question of thedondcile, legal or aotual residanoe rhatsoeter of the person **thus** charged; on the contrary, it is a question of'**the** preSeAae of auoh person within the juri8diCtiOA -- **county --**  of,the court whose duty it is todetermine such queotion.

001s gpeer Assistant