People v. Monick

A written complaint was filed before a justice of the peace in Macomb county, alleging that Herman Monick, alias Joseph Caswell “did attempt to break and destroy a safe, to-wit, a depository of money and other valuables in a building of Charles Reindel on Main street in the village of Fraser, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.”

The justice issued a warrant containing the identical language of the complaint. Monick was taken into custody, brought before the justice and an oral examination was had, the testimony not being reduced to writing. The justice held that…