In re Irvine

Ralph Irvine was committed in 1946 as a criminal sexual psychopath under PA 1939, No 165 (CL 1948, § 780.501 et seq.* [Stat Ann 1946 Cum Supp § 28.967(1) et seq.)). On March 4, 1954, defendant in propria persona sought original writs of habeas corpus and certiorari in this Court in order to attack the original petition under which he was committed.

On March 17, 1954, the people, through the office of the prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, confessed error and conceded that the petition upon which Irvine was committed was fatally defective under this Court’s holding in In re Carter, 337 Mich…