In Re Kemmerer

On presentation of the petition of William G. Kemmerer, we issued a writ of habeas corpus to the warden of the State prison at Jackson and an ancillary writ of certiorari to the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit. Returns were duly made. The record shows that on January 21, 1941, a warrant was issued charging petitioner with indecent and obscene exposure in the presence of a young girl. Complaint was made under section 335, Michigan penal code, Act No. 328, Pub. Acts 1931 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1940, § 17115-335, Stat. Ann. § 28.567), which defines such an offense as a misdemeanor punishable…