Gordon v. People

Gordon was charged in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit with statutory burglary, but was acquitted of all but simple larceny of property under twenty-five dollars. He was thereupon sentenced to a year’s imprisonment; and brings error.

The recorder seems to have thought that the former decisions of this court in Nelson v. People 38 Mich. 618, and Brown v. People 39 Mich. 57, were no longer operative. It was there held that the general statute for the punishment of larceny and some other offenses, which fixed’a maximum punishment beyond three months, was controlled by the statute of 1849 which…