In Re Buck

We issued a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of petitioner’s detention in the Kalamazoo State Hospital. By ancillary writ of certiorari we have the record of the proceedings in the probate court of St. Joseph county which resulted in the commitment. It discloses a situation similar to that shown in Re Miller, 303 Mich. 81, and in Re Clifford, 303 Mich. 84, and decision there is controlling here.

Petitioner was adjudged insane by the probate court on December 9, 1933, upon the certificates of two physicians and without “the taking of proofs and a full investigation of the facts.…