McClellan v. Judge of Recorder's Court of Detroit

This is a mandamus proceeding brought against Christopher E. Stein, a judge of the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, on petition of Frank H. McClellan, an officer of the metropolitan police department of that city, to test the constitutionality of Act No. 99, Pub. Acts 1923, entitled “An act for the suppression of gaming.”

On Monday, October 6, 1924, McClellan laid before the prosecuting attorney of Wayne county the facts which he claimed to have discovered on the previous Saturday evening, October 4th, showing that certain individuals had been guilty of violating the provisions of the…