Byrnes v. People

Byrnes was prosecuted in the. Superior Court of Grand Rapids upon an information which charged him with breaking and entering by night the shop and office of one Murphy with intent to steal his goods and chattels, and with stealing goods of the value of nineteen dollars. This information was based on an examination upon a precisely similar charge, before the police 'justice of Grand Rapids. The terms feloniously and burglariously were applied in all these documents. The jury convicted the prisoner, and the court sentenced him for burglary to five years in the State Prison.

After the…