Case Name: In re MAGUIRE
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1897-07-16
Citations: 114 Mich. 80
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re MAGUIRE.
Judges: Grant, Montgomery, and Hooker, JJ., concurred. Long, C. J., did not sit.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 80–81

Head Matter:
In re MAGUIRE.
Habeas Corpus — Commitment to Asylum — Validity.
Habeas corpus is not the proper remedy to test the validity of an order of the circuit judge, entered after an inquiry into the sanity of one in jail awaiting arraignment on a charge of arson, committing the accused to the asylum for the dangerous and criminal insane until restored to his right mind.
Habeas corpus by Alice Maguire to inquire into the cause of the detention of her husband, Eugene Maguire, by the superintendent of the Michigan asylum for the dangerous and criminal insane.
Submitted July 13, 1897.
Denied July 16, 1897.
Mains & Gavanagh, for petitioner.
Fred A. Maynard, Attorney General, and Andrew■ W. Lockton, Prosecuting Attorney, for respondent.

Opinion:
Moore, J.
Eugene Maguire, who was in jail in Calhoun county awaiting arraignment charged with the crime of arson, was said to be insane. The circuit judge caused an inquiry to be made in open court, in the presence of said Maguire, as to his sanity. The judge found he was insane, and entered an order releasing him from imprisonment in the county, and committing him to the Michigan asylum for the dangerous and criminal insane at Ionia, until restored to his right mind or otherwise discharged. He is now confined by virtue of such commitment. Mains & Cavanagh apply for the writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the statute authorizing the inquiry and commitment is unconstitutional and void, and that the proceedings before the circuit court were irregular and void. We think this case is ruled by the Case of Underwood, 30 Mich. 502, and the Case of Coffeen, 38 Mich. 311. See 2 How. Stat. § 8575, subd. 2.
The writ is denied.
Grant, Montgomery, and Hooker, JJ., concurred. Long, C. J., did not sit.