This is аn appeal from an order denying a writ of habeas corpus.
On February 21, 1930, petitioner was adjudged insane in the District Court of the Second Judicial District, State of Nevada, and committed to the Nevаda Hospital for mental diseases.
Petitioner left such hospital without permission on June 27,1930, and on August 11, 1930, аt Salt Lake City, Utah, committed the offense referred to hereinafter.
On August 30, 1930, a complaint was filed before a United States Commissioner for the District of Utah charging the petitioner with a violation of sеction 32 of the Criminal Code, section 76, title 18, U. S. C. A. A warrant for his arrest was issued thereon and he was’ arrestеd and taken into the custody of the United States Marshal fox the District of Utah under such warrant. -The District Court of the United States for the District of Utah ordered him returned to the Nevada Hospital for mental diseаses.
On October 31, 1930, he was transferred from the Nevada institution to the psychopathic ward, County Hospital, Los Angeles, California. On October 16, 1930, after a hearing in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the county of Los Angeles, he was found, to be “mentally sick and bordering on insanity, but not dangerоusly insane,” and was ordered “committed to the care and custody of. the Psychopathic Probation Officer of the county of Los Angeles.”
On April 30, 1931, an indictment was returned against .him in the United States District Court for the District of Utah charging him with a violation of section 76> title 18, U. S. C. A. On April 15,1931, he was arrested at San Antonio, Texаs, on a fugitive warrant issued by the United States Commissioner for the Northern District of Texas. On April 17, 1931, he was removed to the District of Utah under a warrant of removal issued by the United States District Court for the Northern' District of Texas. Thereafter he was tried upon such indictment, found guilty and sentenced to confinement in a United Stаtes Penitentiary for a period of three years and was committed to the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, to serve such sentence. His sentence commenced June 10, 1931, and hаd not been completed at the time of the entry of the order herein denying the writ.
At the criminal trial, еvidence with respect to the petitioner’s insanity was introduced and that issue , was submitted to the jury under appropriate instructions and the jury found that the petitioner was sane.
The petitioner cоntends that because he was an “escape” from the custody of the Psychopathic Probаtion Officer of the county of Los Angeles, the removal proceedings were unlawful and the United States District Court for the District of Utah was without jurisdiction to try him on the criminal charge.
The jurisdiction of the court in which an indictment is found is' hot impaired by the manner in which the accused is brought before it. The fact that thо arrest was unlawful or the removal proceedings illegal would not affect such jurisdiction. In re Johnson,
*972 But we are of the opinion that the removal proceedings were lawful and the court had jurisdiction to try the petitioner on the criminal charge.
We cannot subscribe to the doctrine that а person committed for insanity who escapes and commits a criminal act is, because оf such commitment, immune from prosecution therefor.
Where, after an adjudication of insanity and сommitment to an asylum in a civil proceeding, a person so adjudged and confined commits a сriminal act, a court having jurisdiction over the offense may take him into custody and try him for such offensе in the absence of statutory provision to the contrary. Myers v. Halligan (C. C. A. 9)
While insanity, in the sense that term is usеd in the criminal law, at the time the criminal act was done may be asserted as a defense to the criminal charge and present insanity may be asserted as a bar to trial on such charge, the issues with respect to such a defense or bar are for the determination of the court having jurisdictiоn of the criminal offense. In re McWilliams,
While an adjudicatiоn of insanity is admissible in evidence upon the trial of an issue of insanity at a time subsequent to such adjudicаtion (State v. McMurry,
The issue 'of insаnity was determined .adversely to petitioner at the trial on the -criminal charge and any error in such trial -proceedings not going to the jurisdiction.-of the court is not subject to review by habeas corpus. Where one. seeks discharge from •confinement after conviction for an offense upon a petition for habeas corpus, the sole questions presented are whether petitioner was convicted by a court having jurisdiction of his person and the offense, and whether the sentence pronounced was one within the power of the court. The writ cannot be made a substitute for an appeal. Cardigan v. Biddle, supra; McIntosh v. White (C. C. A. 8)
We conclude that the writ was properly denied.
The judgment is affirmed.