Hall v. Superior Court

Insane Persons—Proceedings for Commitment—Sufficiency of Complaint.—An affidavit or complaint alleging that a certain person is insane and so disordered in mind as to endanger himself and others; that on a certain day he “acted in a strange and incoherent manner, and was laboring under the delusion that persons were whispering and talking to him, and that he was afflicted with what he called a ‘whisperee’ and by buzzes, and was laboring under the delusion that there were parties who desired to drive him from Southern California; that by reason of said insanity said person is dangerous to be at large,” contains a sufficient statement of facts to give the court jurisdiction to proceed and examine the charge made.

Id.—Affidavit or Complaint—Statement of Conclusion.—It is not a statement of a conclusion merely for the complainant to say, in such affidavit or complaint, that the petitioner was “laboring under the delusion that persons were whispering and talking to him. . . . and was laboring under the delusion that there were parties who desired to drive him from Southern California.”