Grosscup v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Defendant circuit judge dismissed as improvidently issued a writ of certiorari directed to the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit to review the conviction of plaintiff of a violation of Act No. 328, Pub. Acts 1917 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1922, § 15064 [1-3]), and-the question before us is the power of the circuit court to review by certiorari a conviction for a misdemeanor in the recorder’s court. Section 10 of article 7 of the Constitution is as follows:

“Circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal not excepted in this Constitution and not prohibited by…