In Re Faint

This is habeas corpus and ancillary certiorari to inquire into the legality of the detention of plaintiff, committed on May 8, 1950, under PA 1939, No 165 and its amendments' then in effect (CL 1948, § 780.501 et seq. [Stat Ann 1949 Cum Supp §,28.967(1) et seq.]) as a criminal sexual psychopathic person.

Plaintiff says that the prosecuting attorney’s statement in writing, filed as commencement of proceedings under the statute, was fatally defective because it had not been made under oath and failed to set forth facts tending to show that plaintiff was a criminal sexual psychopathic person. CL…