People v. Potter
Michigan Supreme Court
On exceptions from Wayne Circuit. The prisoner was indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, and convicted of murder of the first degree.
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On exceptions from Wayne Circuit. The prisoner was indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, and convicted of murder of the first degree. It was proved, on the trial, that Walsh and the prisoner had been working- together for some time before the 25th of October, IBS?, and were on friendly terms; that, on the evening- of October 24th, the prisoner and Walsh went to the theater, in Detroit, and left about ten o’clock, in company with two or three other persons; that they had been, drinking some in the course of the evening, and immediately after leaving the theater drank together three times,…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin Ch. J.:
The admission, by the Court below, of the statement of the prisoner that he had been reading the life of “Jack Rand,” *5&c., was not error. It is true that it was not competent for the prosecution, on the trial of a criminal case, to introduce evidence which tends only to prove a general disposition to commit crime, but this evidence could not, we apprehend, have been offered for that purpose. The facts of the case show that this remark was made in the course of a conversation, during an interview which was concluded by the homicide for whicli the prisoner stands charged with…
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