Alderman v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. At the March term of the Wayne Circuit Court in 1854, the defendants were indicted, with one Henry H. Bush, for a conspiracy to defraud.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. At the March term of the Wayne Circuit Court in 1854, the defendants were indicted, with one Henry H. Bush, for a conspiracy to defraud. They pleaded the general issue to the indictment, and were tried and convicted at the May term, 1855. A motion for new trial, and also in arrest of judgment, was made and overruled, and sentence was passed on the Aldermans in August, 1855. A bill of exceptions was signed in the case, which was returned with the writ of error, and special errors were assigned upon matters contained in the indictment and bill of exceptions. The…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Copeland, J".
Waiving for the present the consideration of the assigned causes, which relate to the insufficiency of the indictment, we will proceed to notice those brought up by the bill of exceptions. ..Of this class are. the seventh and eighth, and they relate to the exclusion, op the trial below, of the impeaching evidence sought to bo obtained from the witness Bush, on his cross-examination, on the ground that the statements were privileged, having been made to Mr. Baldwin, an attorney, under the supposition, as Bush himself testified, that Baldwin was his counsel. And it was…
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