People v. Fairman
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo. (Mills, J.) The people bring error to review the order of the circuit judge discharging a prisoner in habeas corpus proceedings. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Defendant was convicted of a violation of the statute relative to the sale of property covered by a chattel mortgage, in the recorder’s court, of the village of Kalamazoo. Claiming that she was illegally imprisoned, and that the commitment under which she was detained was void, she applied to the Hon. Alfred J. Mills, circuit judge of Kalamazoo County, for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by him, and upon a hearing he ordered her to be discharged, on the ground that she was illegally imprisoned.
The case is brought to this Court, upon writ of error sued out on behalf of the people,…
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