People v. Collins

Defendant was convicted of a charge of murder and sentenced to the State prison at Marquette for the period of his natural life. • The crime for which he was convicted occurred in Alma. In the early evening of February 5, 1921, Mrs. Ellen Crowe, who had been doing some shopping down town, was on her way home. She stopped at the house of an acquaintance and remained there visiting about an hour. She started for home about 7 o’clock in the evening. Instead of going via the streets she went down the Ann Arbor railroad track, because it shortened the way. The railroad track extends in a…