Brown v. People

These were two separate cases in the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit, in each of which the defendant below (plaintiff in error) was, upon an information filed by the prosecuting attorney, convicted of the offense of larceny, and sentenced to the state prison; and each is brought to this court by writ of error. The errors assigned in each case relate to the question of the sufficiency .of the description of the property alleged to be stolen.

In the information against Brown the charge is, for that the defendant did “feloniously steal, take and carry away, of the personal property,…