People v. Tillard

The defendant was 16 years of age at the time he is alleged to have committed a felony. He was past 17 at the time when the present criminal proceeding was started against him in the recorder’s court of Detroit. The only question for decision is whether the recorder’s court has jurisdiction without a waiver from the juvenile division of the probate court. A motion to quash was made in recorder’s court, denied, and on leave granted the defendant appeals from the order of denial.

On September 7,1946, the defendant was arrested on a charge of robbery armed on that date, in the city of Detroit. He…