People v. Podsiad

Defendant was convicted of the offense of accepting money from the earnings of a prostitute and deriving support from such earnings in violation of Act No. 328, § 457, Pub. Acts 1931 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1940, § 17115-457, Stat. Ann. § 28.712), and appeals, claiming that the proof was not sufficient to sustain the conviction; that defendant was prejudiced by being tried on various counts which were afterwards withdrawn from the jury; that prejudicial error resulted from a certain irresponsive answer to a question by one of the witnesses for the people; and that the trial court, in sentencing the…