Allen v. Board of State Auditors

The following joint resolution was passed by the legislature of 1899:

‘ ‘ Joint Resolution to provide for the Relief of Thomas Allen.

“ Whereas, it satisfactorily appears that Thomas Allen, now of the city of Detroit, was, on or about the twentieth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety, arrested at the city of Grand Rapids upon the charge of ‘assault with the intent to do great bodily harm, ’ and taken a prisoner to the county jail of Mecosta county, and there confined until the fourteenth day of November following, and then tried and convicted upon said charge, of which he was entirely…