People v. Stein

Defendants were charged with carrying a revolver and a pistol in a vehicle occupied by them, without possessing a license to carry the weapons, contrary to Act No. 328, Pub. Acts 1931, § 227, the Michigan penal code.

On examination, before a judge of the recorder’s court acting as magistrate, the weapons were denied admission in evidence on the ground that they had been obtained by illegal arrest and search. Defendants were discharged. The people ash writ of mandamus to compel the magistrate to reinstate the proceedings and receive the weapons in evidence. Voorhies v. Judge of Recorder’s…