In Re Gordon

We granted petitioner the writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of her detention in the Ionia State hospital. Ancillary writ of certiorari was directed to the probate court for Wayne county to certify to this court its records and proceedings leading to the detention. The records, in compliance with the writ, are before us. It appears that petitioner was committed to the Wayne county hospital at Eloise, Michigan, by the probate court for Wayne county on August 14, 1936, as an insane person, and on or about June 11, 1938, was transferred to tbe Ionia State hospital under tbe…