Legal Opinion

People v. Calderwood

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided May 5, 1887PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Error to Berrien. (Smith, J.) Bespondent was convicted of the crime of statutory burglary. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtOhampliN, J.

Defendant was convicted of the statutory crime of burglary in breaking and entering a saloon of Thomas A. Walker, “ not adjoining to or occupied with a dwelling-house.”

Walker kept a hotel at Benton Harbor, and resided therein with his family. The building in which the saloon was which was entered, was situated about eight feet from the hotel building, which space was used as a passage-way between the buildings. The saloon was in the front part on the ground floor, and there was a front entrance thereto from the street. In the rear of the saloon was a water-closet, which was entered from the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Moore v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1882

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. GriffinMichigan Supreme Court · 1889

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