1881 public laws – Ch.206 Sec.14
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CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
The judges of the superior courts in the respective districts shall allow to be committed to the asylum as a patient any person who may be confined in jail on a criminal charge of any kind or degree, or upon a peace warrant, whenever the judge shall be satisfied by a verdict of a jury of inquisition that the alleged criminal act was committed while such person was insane.