People v. Ingram

The defendant was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, MCL 750.227; MSA 28.424. Defendant was bound over for trial by an examining magistrate on October 25, 1977. On December 1, 1977, the defendant filed a motion to dismiss the charge. A hearing was held on December 9, 1977, before a judge of the Detroit Recorder’s Court, who treated it as a motion to suppress the evidence of the gun. The trial court granted defendant’s motion to suppress and dismissed the case upon the prosecutor’s indication that he could not proceed without evidence of the gun. From this dismissal, the people appeal…