People v. Marthinson

The defendant was charged with wilfully destroying and mutilating certain monuments and gravestones in Mt. Carmel cemetery, in the city of Cadillac, Michigan. On the morning of July 4, 1922, a number of monuments in that cemetery were found tipped over and broken. Suspicion pointed to the defendant. He was arrested. To the officers he made a full confession, and to others oral ad missions of guilt which were received in evidence on the trial. He was convicted and sentenced, and has brought the case here on writ of error. There are 16 assignments of error. Two of them are of sufficient merit…