People v. Mangold
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions from Kent. (Montgomery, J.) Eespondent was tried and convicted in the police court, of Grand Eapids of failing to keep his saloon closed on Sunday, as required by the liquor law of 1887, and appealed to the circuit, where he was again convicted. The facts are'stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Respondent was tried and convicted in tbe police court of Grand Rapids for violating tbe Sunday clause of the liquor law of 1887, by which act such violation is made a misdemeanor, and punished by fine and imprisonment beyond the jurisdiction of a justice. Respondent appealed to the circuit court of Kent county, where he raised, as he had done before, the question of jurisdiction. This was ruled against him, and he was again convicted.
The Grand Rapids police court was originally intended to exercise the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in criminal cases, and some special jurisdiction. In…
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