In re Marion

Respondent was convicted in the circuit court for the county of Wayne of the crime of receiving stolen property exceeding in value $25 upon an information charging the crime to have been committed February 24, 1903. The statute (3 Comp. Laws, § 11556) prescribes that one convicted of this offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not more than five years or by fine not exceeding $500 and imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year. On March 12, 1904, respondent was sentenced to be confined " in the State prison at Jackson, Mich., at hard labor for the period of…