Legal Opinion

People v. Romanski

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided March 30, 1921No. Docket No. 118PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Keidan, (Harry B.), J. Leo Romanski and. Frank Bartell were convicted of receiving a bribe, and were sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 2 nor more than ten years in the State prison at Jackson.

1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.

The defendants were, at the time of the alleged commission of the offense charged in the information, and at the time of the trial, constables in and for the city of Detroit, and were acting as sucofficers at the time of the doing of the acts upon which the charge against them is based. The evidence on the part of the people tended to show that on March 23, 1920, both defendants, acting together, went to the home of one Lucas in the city of Detroit, and gaining admission, showed their badges, announced that they were officers, and proceeded to search the house for whisky. They accused Lucas…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. FarrellMichigan Supreme Court · 1906
  2. People v. DayMichigan Supreme Court · 1915
  3. People v. DailyMichigan Supreme Court · 1914
  4. People v. DayMichigan Supreme Court · 1918

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. People v. ThomasMichigan Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Hemans v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
  3. People v. FreedlandMichigan Supreme Court · 1944
  4. People v. DavisMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  5. People v. HirschfieldMichigan Supreme Court · 1935

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