Robison v. Miner
Michigan Supreme Court
Application for mandamus to require respondents to entertain jurisdiction to hold preliminary examinations in criminal prosecutions under the liquor law of 1887. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The object of these two' applications, one of which is made against each respondent, is to require them to entertain jurisdiction to hold preliminary examinations in criminal prosecutions under the revision of the liquor laws of 1887. They decline doing so upon the claim that the statute' embodying that revision is invalid because, as they insist, it contains unconstitutional provisions, which are so connected with the prosecution clauses of the act that they must stand or fall together. If this defense is made out it will be fatal, and will defeat the application for our intervention. We are…
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