Saunders v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Recorder’s Court of Detroit. Criminal information for statutory offenses. Saunders was convicted of breaking and entering by night a court room not connected with a dwelling and feloniously taking therefrom certain recognizances described as contracts in force and public records.
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Error to Recorder’s Court of Detroit. Criminal information for statutory offenses. Saunders was convicted of breaking and entering by night a court room not connected with a dwelling and feloniously taking therefrom certain recognizances described as contracts in force and public records. Saunders was a lawyer, and it was in evidence that he had asked policeman Webb to leave the door of the police court room unlocked in order that he might get the O’Neil bonds, and that Webb, after consulting with his superior officer, consented, and then lay in wait with others, and .at nine o’clock at night…
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
My brethren are of the opinion that the recorder erred in his rulings in the reception of evidence in two particulars:
First, When he overruled the question put to the witness Webb, on cross-examination, whether he had not had some transactions with the defendant, wherein he had put in some false swearing for him or for the parties ; and,
Second, When he excluded the evidence sought from the witness, Dunnebacke, to show that there was nothing unusual or necessarily suspicious in defendant’s being where he was seen in company with Moylan.
Webb was an important and necessary witness in the case,…
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