In re Way

Sarah Way was brought before us on return to a habeas corpus, as confined in the Detroit House of Correction on a conviction of vagrancy, set out as committed “in violation of section 1, chapter 78, *301title 8, pages 175 and 176 of Revised Ordinances of said city, contrary to the ordinances of said city in such ease made and provided.”

It appears from the commitment that she had been arrested and confined in the station-house before any complaint; that a complaint was then made by Charles E. Reynolds, a policeman, which contains no specific facts, but swears positively, and therefore on his…