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• Winfred Overholser v. Lynch, 288 F.2d 388 (D.C. Cir. 1961)
  …vis v. United Stataes, 1895, 160 U.S. 469, 16 S.Ct. 353, 40 L.Ed. 499. . At the present time, appellee has responded to treatment and has been conditionally released. . Cf. Hill v. United States, 6 Cir., 206 F. 2d 204, 207, certiorari denied 1953, 346 U.S. 859, 74 S.Ct. 75, 98 L.Ed. 372.…
• O'Beirne v. Winfred Overholser, 287 F.2d 133 (D.C. Cir. 1960)
  …pt by “a prisoner in custody under sentence of a court” to “vacate, set aside or correct the sentence.” Here, appellant is not a “prisoner”; he is not under “sentence.” See Hill v. United States, 6 Cir., 1953, 206 F. 2d 204, certiorari denied, 1953, 346 U.S. 859, 74 S.Ct. 75, 98 L.Ed. 372. He is an “accused person confined to a hospital for the mentally ill,” to quote the words of the statute. See D.C.Code § 24-301 (b) (Supp. VIII, 1960). Habeas corpus petitions are entertained by the District Court, not by…
• Achillies G. Cyronne-DeVIRGIN v. State OF Mo. & Dr. Donald B. Peterson, 341 F.2d 568 (8th Cir. 1965)
  …ce, but not to persons such as petitioner who has been acquitted and confined for reason of insanity. Compare O’Beirne v. Overholser, 109 U.S.App.D.C. 279, 287 F. 2d 133, 136 (1960); Hill v. United States, 206 F. 2d 204 (6th Cir. 1953), cert. denied 346 U. S. 859, 74 S.Ct. 75, 98 L.Ed. 372 (1953). Nonetheless, the State asks that petitioner’s certificate of probable cause for appeal be withdrawn in light of a recently created state right to which petitioner can now resort. The State calls our attention to t…