Rockwell v. Oakland Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Kleber P. Rockwell, prosecuting attorney of Oakland county, to compel George W. Smith, circuit judge of said county, to vacate an order quashing an information.
1Opinion of the Court
Hóoker, C. J.
The relator is prosecuting attorney for the county of Oakland, and asks a mandamus requiring the respondent, a circuit judge, to vacate an order quashing an information charging the larceny of a dog, which *12order was based upon the claim by the respondent that a dog is not the subject of larceny in this State.
In most of our States, larceny has become an offense of statutory definition. Thus, in some States it is provided that one who steals the personal property of another shall be punished, etc.; constituting one class. In our own and other States the provision is that “every…
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