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IN RE SPRINGSTEAD

Docket No. 43, Calendar No. 46,962.

347 Mich. 688 (1957)

81 N.W.2d 418

In re SPRINGSTEAD. SHUMWAY v. KALAMAZOO STATE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 28, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward James Kenney, Jr., for plaintiff.

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Daniel J. O'Hara and Perry A. Maynard, Assistants Attorney General, and John H. Spelman, Prosecuting Attorney, Berrien County, for defendant.

KELLY, J.

Russell Springstead was arrested (April 21, 1952) on a charge of reckless use of firearms. He was held in the Berrien county jail until May 23, 1952, when under order of the Berrien county probate judge he was committed to the Kalamazoo State Hospital.

On May 23, 1955, a petition for writ of habeas corpus and for ancillary writ of certiorari was filed in the circuit court for the county of Kalamazoo. The trial court dismissed the petition and denied...

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