People v. Kennedy
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Genesee. (Newton, J.) Complaint for selling liquor to habitual drunkard. Respondent brings error. It is discretionary to postpone sentence a reasonable time after conviction: Bisli. Cr. Pro. § 880; People v. Reilly 53 Mich. 262; Weaver v. People 83 Mich. 297.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, C. J.
The defendant was convicted before a justice of the peace of violating section 2 of Act No. 259 of the Session Laws of 1881, by selling intoxicating liquor to one Charles Neif, a person in the habit of getting intoxicated. The justice sentenced him to ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail, and that he pay a fine of $25 and the costs of prosecution, assessed at $76.54, and in default of the payment of said fine and costs he should be further imprisoned, not exceeding ninety days in all. From this defendant appealed to the circuit court for Genesee county. Upon his trial there he was again…
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