In Re Miller

We issued a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of petitioner’s detention in-the Lapeer State Home & Training School. By ancillary writ of certiorari we have the record of the proceedings in the probate court of Ingham county which resulted in the commitment. The record shows that the petitioner was adjudged a feeble-minded person solely on the certificates of the doctors who examined him and that no other proofs were taken.

The statute (2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 6888, as amended by Act No. 104, Pub. Acts 1937 [Comp. Laws Supp. 1940', § 6888, Stat. Ann. 1940 Cum. Supp. § 14.811])…