Legal Opinion

People v. Lyons

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 27, 1917No. Docket No. 154PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Connolly, J. Ben Lyons was convicted of pandering, and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 20 years in the State prison at Marquette.

1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.

Defendant was informed against in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, the information charging that he did

“Wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously knowingly accept, receive, levy and appropriate a certain sum of money, to wit, the sum of two ($2.00) dollars, in lawful money of the United States of America, of the value of two ($2.00) dollars, without giving consideration therefor, from the proceeds of the earnings of one Emma Lyons, a female person, she, the said Emma Lyons, being then and there a woman engaged in prostitution,” etc.,

—contrary to the provisions of section 3 of Act No.…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. People v. SmithMichigan Supreme Court · 1929
  2. People v. LockhartMichigan Supreme Court · 1928
  3. Boykin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
  4. People v. SigersMichigan Supreme Court · 1922
  5. People of Michigan v. John MacAuley BurkmanMichigan Supreme Court · 2024

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