Washburn v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Washtenaw Circuit, where plaintiff in error was proceeded against by information for the murder of Lucy A. Washburn, his wife, as follows: “ State of Michigan, Washtenaw Gounty, ss.: The Circuit Court for the County of Washtenaw.
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Error to Washtenaw Circuit, where plaintiff in error was proceeded against by information for the murder of Lucy A. Washburn, his wife, as follows: “ State of Michigan, Washtenaw Gounty, ss.: The Circuit Court for the County of Washtenaw. Sylvester Abel, Prosecuting Attorney for the county of Washtenaw aforesaid, for and in behalf of the People of the State of Michigan, comes into said Court, in the June term thereof, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and gives it here to understand and he informed, that George W. Washbnrn, late of the city of Ypsilanti, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.:
This was an information filed in the Circuit Court for the county of Washtenaw, containing several counts for murder and manslaughter. The defendant put in a plea to the jurisdiction of the Court, alleging that it “ has not or cannot obtain jurisdiction of said crimes, by presentation of the Prosecuting Attorney for the county; and because there is not any thing' set forth in said presentment in regard to said offenses which gives jurisdiction to the Circuit Court for the county of Washtenaw to hear, try and determine the same.” To this plea a replication was filed asserting…
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