People v. Gosch
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent. (Burch, J.) Respondent was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in State prison. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
The respondent is charged, jointly with Charles Brearley, with having killed and murdered, one Daniel Sinclair, at the township of Bowne, Kent county, on August 13, 1889. They took separate trials. On a trial had in the circuit court of that county, the respondent was found guilty of manslaughter, and sen-' tenced on October 16, 1889, to imprisonment in the State prison at Jackson for the term of 12 years. The case comes to this Court by writ of error.
The theory of the people on the trial below was that on August 12, 1889, one Peter Sinclair, a deputy-sheriff of Kent county, and a brother of…
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