In re Silverthorn

On June 29, 1888, James Silverthorn was convicted of an assault and battery committed upon his wife, in the county of Eaton, before a justice of the peace, and sentenced to the House of Correction and Reformatory, at Ionia, at hard labor, for the period of 90 days. The application is now made for his discharge, on the ground that the justice of the' peace had no-power to sentence the prisoner to the House of Correction and Reformatory, as has been done in this case; *645that, such action being not within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, the prisoner is entitled to his discharge.

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