People v. Ross

Defendant was charged with murder in the Marquette circuit court and convicted, and the case comes to this court on exceptions before sentence. It appears that at the time the crime was committed, on July 10, 1925, the defendant was a minor, not yet 15 years of age. He was apprehended and taken before the probate court, and, after the county agent investigated, he was charged as a delinquent, on account of the offense which he committed. He was committed to the custody of the county agent, to be confined in the detention room, in the city of Marquette, until the further order of the court. On…