In Re Pungratz

This case is an example of the consequences of prosecuting officials’ failure to oppose a petitioner’s application for writ of habeas corpus with a sufficient showing of pertinent facts available from the record in the court below. Had this Court been duly apprised of those facts, as it ought to have been, it is altogether unlikely that we would have allowed the writ and ancillary writ of certiorari to issue.

Plaintiff’s detention is under CLS 1954, § 780.501 et seq. (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.967[1] et seq.), as a criminal sexual psychopathic person. His application for habeas corpus rested on 2…