Bayliss v. People

Marston, C. T.

An information was filed against the respondent in the circuit court for the county of Shiawassee, charging him with having committed adultery with one Theresa Phoenix at the “ Clinton House, an hotel in the village of Ovid in Clinton county, within one hundred rods of the dividing line between said county of Clinton and said county of Shiawassee.” To this information the respondent pleaded guilty and was duly sentenced. The case is now brought here on writ of error, and the errors assigned are— First, that the complaint was not made by the wife of the respondent; secondly, that…