In Re Stout

Petitioner, an inmate of Ionia State Hospital, apjieared in propria persona alleging Ms •detention to be illegal. Tbe record discloses tbat petitioner was committed to said hospital by order of tbe recorder’s court on September 25, 1931. This •order of commitment was issued pursuant to tbe statute then in force providing such disposition “when a party accused of any felony shall appear to be insane.” CL 1929, § 17241, as amended by PA 1931, No 317.1 Petitioner alleges that his detention is illegal in that at the time of commitment he was not a person accused of a felony. Based on the averment…