Legal Opinion

People v. Bemis

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided October 10, 1883PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Error to Ionia. • (Hart, J.) Murder. Kespondent was convicted. Murder by poison is covered by an information in ordinary form^without stating the means: Templeton v. People 27 Mich. 501; Slate v. Verrill 54 Me. 408; Com. v. Webster 5 Cush. 295 ; People v. Potter 5 Mich. 1; People v. Poe 1 Mich. 451.

1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.

The respondent stands convicted of the murder of one Will. Henderson. ' The information is very general, and charges that respondent “heretofore, to-wit, on the 18th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, at the township of Easton in said county of Ionia, feloniously, willfully and unlawfully and of her malice aforethought, did kill and murder one Will. Henderson, contrary to the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Michigan.”

On the trial E. H. Smith, Esq.., appeared as counsel with the prosecuting attorney, and. this being…

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