People v. Brown

Respondent, in the month of September, 1883, was arrested on a warrant issued by a justice of the peace of the county of Kalamazoo, which charged him with perjury, said to have been committed as a witness on his own behalf when being tried on a charge of unlawfully keeping open on Sunday a saloon of which he was proprietor. The justice examined a number of witnesses in support of the charge of perjury, and held the respondent for trial in the circuit court. An information,' based on the charge before the justice, was then filed in the circuit court, in which, after setting out the proceedings…