Shannon v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lenawee Circuit. The plaintiff in error was convicted at the December Term, 1857, of the Lenawee Circuit, upon an indictment founded on section 5741 of Compiled Laws, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State-prison for five years. The following is a copy of the indictment: “ State of Michigan: The Circuit Court for the County of Lenawee. Of the June Term, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
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Error to Lenawee Circuit. The plaintiff in error was convicted at the December Term, 1857, of the Lenawee Circuit, upon an indictment founded on section 5741 of Compiled Laws, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State-prison for five years. The following is a copy of the indictment: “ State of Michigan: The Circuit Court for the County of Lenawee. Of the June Term, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. “County of Lenawee, ss.: The Grand Jurors of the People of. the State of Michigan, inquiring in and for the body of tbe county aforesaid, on their oaths present, that Albert F. Shannon, on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.:
The errors assigned in this case are substantially as follows:
1. The insufficiency of the indictment.
2. The refusal of the Court to charge the jury as requested in each of the points specified in the bill of exceptions, and the charge actually given, as far as excepted to.
3. That the second count of the indictment is insufficient, in not giving the proper name of the child, nor otherwise sufficiently designating it; and, under this, it is contended that as the verdict and judgment are general, the judgment should be reversed, because one count is defective.
The first and third…
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