People v. Jones

The respondent was convicted of the offense charged in an information reading, in the material part thereof, as follows:

“That George Jones, late of the township of Portage, in the county of Houghton, heretofore, to wit, on the 29th day of May in the year 1899, at the township of Portage, in tho county of Houghton, aforesaid, did feloniously and knowingly have in his possession certain tools and implements, — that is to say, one skeleton key, one clipper, and one key adapted and designed for the forcing and breaking open of buildings, rooms, vaults, and safes, in order feloniously to steal,…