Crippen v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Branch Circuit, where defendant was indicted for causing a public nuisance, by keeping up a mill dam across tbe Coldwater river, at a place called Hodunk, in Girard township.
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Error to Branch Circuit, where defendant was indicted for causing a public nuisance, by keeping up a mill dam across tbe Coldwater river, at a place called Hodunk, in Girard township. From the hill of exceptions in the case, it appears that when the clerk had drawn from the jury box tbe names, of twelve jurors, “ the counsel for the defendant being asked by the court if they had any objections to any of the persons so called as jurors as aforesaid, then and there inquired of the said persons, so called as jurors, touching their indifferences between the said People and the said defendant, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
Defendant was indicted for a public nuisance, and on his conviction, an order was made by the court, under-§1347 of Compiled Laws; for removing the nuisance, which is a mill dam; and the case is before us on a writ of error. ,
A question arose on the argument, whether the order-for the removal of the dam was a final judgment on which a writ of error would lie. We think it is. A judgment is the decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein: — 1 Bouv. Inst. 264: and the statute relative to…
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