Tyler v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to St. Clair Circuit. The pleadings in this case may be found in *1 Mich. 162. Subsequent to the decision of the questions there passed upon by this court, the plaintiff in error put in a plea of Not Guilty, was tried, convicted of murder in the second degree, at the November term, 1859, and sentenced to six years imprisonment in the state prison. Exceptions were filed, and a writ of error taken to this court.
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Error to St. Clair Circuit. The pleadings in this case may be found in *1 Mich. 162. Subsequent to the decision of the questions there passed upon by this court, the plaintiff in error put in a plea of Not Guilty, was tried, convicted of murder in the second degree, at the November term, 1859, and sentenced to six years imprisonment in the state prison. Exceptions were filed, and a writ of error taken to this court. From the bill of exceptions it appears that the defendant requested the court to charge the jury, first: “that if they believed, from the evidence introduced tending to show it,…
1Concurrence
Campbell J.:
I concur with my brethren in adhering to the views formerly expressed upon the questions reserved, when this case was presented to us heretofore; for the reasons given in the reported decision in 1 Mich. 161. I am also of opinion that process can not legally be served in a foreign jurisdiction.
But I am unable to discover any authority, in the state of Michigan, to punish an offense like the one here charged upon the plaintiff in error. The record raises expressly *336the question whether the Circuit Court" for St. Clair county-had jurisdiction to punish such an offense. Counsel for…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. ScottMichigan Supreme Court · 1859
- People v. PotterMichigan Supreme Court · 1858
- People v. TylerMichigan Supreme Court · 1859
- Wilson ex rel. Farrand v. DavisMichigan Supreme Court · 1848