Morissey v. People

Manning J.:

The plaintiffs in error were convicted of larceny on an information charging the larceny to have been committed in tbe city of Detroit. On tbe trial it appeared the articles mentioned in the information were taken from a store that was broken open on tbe night of tbe 19th of November, 1860, at Windsor, on tbe opposite side of tbe Detroit River, in Canada, and were brought over tbe river to tbe city.

On the trial tbe evidence to prove these facts was objected to, on two grounds: 1st, That tbe information did not charge the larceny to have been committed in Canada; and, 2d, That tbe…