People v. Norman

The information originally filed charged the defendant with breaking or attempting to break, burn, blow up, or otherwise injure or destroy a safe, vault, or depository of money or other valuables in a building or place on October 13, 1965, with intent to commit larceny in violation of CL 1948, § 750.531 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.799).

The defendant moved to quash that information. The trial judge concluded that the statute violated the United States Constitution, Am 14, in not forewarning with definiteness precisely what conduct is criminal, 1 2but he stated his opinion was tentative, was not…