People v. Thomason

Defendant, Timothy Charles Thomason, appeals as of right from his jury conviction of breaking and entering a building with intent to commit larceny, MCL 750.110; MSA 28.305, and being an habitual offender, MCL 769.11; MSA 28.1083. Defendant alleges that the lack of an arraignment in this case requires reversal. We *814agree. The instant case is reversed and remanded to the trial court.

Defendant was an inmate at Lakeland Correctional Facility, in Branch County, from July, 1986, to November, 1986. Some time during the evening of Friday, October 31, 1986, defendant and another inmate broke into the…