Legal Opinion
People v. Lefkovitz
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided September 6, 1940No. Docket No. 125, Calendar No. 41,028PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
I do not join in the opinion of Mr. Justice SHARPE in grafting on the criminal law of this State the so-called common-law offense of misprision of felony.
There is not now and never has been such a substantive crime in the State of Michigan.
At common law the essential of the crime was such a concealment of knowledge of a felony as to constitute the offender in that respect an accessory after the fact. Text-writers on criminal law, cited by my Brother, and works on pleas and procedure in criminal cases practically all cite Coke on the subject of misprision of felony and let the subject go at…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lorman v. BensonMichigan Supreme Court · 1860
- Marbury v. BrooksSupreme Court of the United States · 1822
- Reynolds v. McMullenMichigan Supreme Court · 1885
- State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1907
- Perrin v. LepperMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Pope v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1979
- Commonwealth v. LopesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- People v. VincentMichigan Court of Appeals · 1980
- United States v. WorcesterDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1961
- People v. VathAppellate Court of Illinois · 1976
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