People v. Griswold

The respondent was prosecuted and convicted in the police court in the city of Detroit for stealing $2.75 and a bottle of brandy, and the judgment was affirmed ■on certiorari in the Wayne county circuit Court. The case is brought into this Court by writ of error. The respondent was found guilty on a trial had by jury in the police court.

But two questions require consideration in this case. First, was it necessary that the prosecuting attorney should have authorized this prosecution, or that the complaining witness should have given security for costs? How. Stat. § 7135 a, was not intended to…