Legal Opinion

People v. Peck

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided February 5, 1907No. Docket No. 150PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Exceptions before judgment from Muskegon; Russell, J. William Peck was convicted of larceny.

1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.

The defendant, who had received a check for $250 from the complainant, to be used for *86purposes agreed upon, was charged with diverting it to his own purposes. The-transaction occurred several years ago, but his misuse of the check having been recently discovered, he was prosecuted upon an information containing five counts.

The first was a charge of the larceny of a check for the sum and value of $250 on November 12, 1897. The second charged the larceny of $250 in money on December 17, 1898. The third charged statutory larceny under 3 Comp. Laws, § 11570, by conversion of the check for $250,…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  2. Dealy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. Trono v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  4. People v. McKinneyMichigan Supreme Court · 1862
  5. The Steamboat Clipper v. LoganOhio Supreme Court · 1849

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. People v. SwiftMichigan Supreme Court · 1912
  2. People v. WiseMichigan Court of Appeals · 1984
  3. Fishleigh v. Detroit United RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1919
  4. People v. GessingerMichigan Supreme Court · 1927
  5. People v. SharpMichigan Supreme Court · 1910

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