People v. Duffield

There are two issues in this case,

I. Whether under common law or statute the Circuit Court of Cass County has jurisdiction over the *304subject matter of a manslaughter prosecution when the deceased was beaten in his home in Cass County, Michigan, and died in a hospital in South Bend, Indiana?

II. Whether the trial judge lawfully accepted defendant’s plea of guilty when the defendant alleged he could not remember some of the details of the crime?

The deceased, John Henry Frazier, was beaten in his home in Cass County, Michigan, and was taken to Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, where he…