In Re Aslanian

On petition of Elsie Howard, we issued a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of detention of her daughter, Evelyn Aslanian, in the Wayne County Training School, Northville, Michigan. By ancillary writ of certiorari we have the record of the proceedings in the probate court of Wayne county which resulted in the commitment of the girl as a feeble-minded person in 1941, when she was 14 years of age.

Petitioner alleges that her daughter was illegally committed to an institution without due process of law; that the application for admission as a feeble-minded person stated conclusions…