Cross v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to the Circuit Court for the county of Washtenaw. Cross was brought before a Justice of the Peace on a warrant based upon the following complaint: “County of Washtenaw ss.: To Charles H. Wallace, a justice of the peace for said county: Harriet Donaldson, a minor of the age of fifteen years, of Saline in said county, having been delivered of a female bastard child, the undersigned being the father and guardian of the said Harriet Donaldson, hereby applies to you to…
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Certiorari to the Circuit Court for the county of Washtenaw. Cross was brought before a Justice of the Peace on a warrant based upon the following complaint: “County of Washtenaw ss.: To Charles H. Wallace, a justice of the peace for said county: Harriet Donaldson, a minor of the age of fifteen years, of Saline in said county, having been delivered of a female bastard child, the undersigned being the father and guardian of the said Harriet Donaldson, hereby applies to you to make inquiry into the facts and circumstances of the case. Q Jonathan Donaldson, father and guardian. Dated Saline,…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
The first error assigned is that no complaint was made by Harriet Donaldson, nor was any accusation and examina'tion taken in writing under oath of the said Harriet before the justice who assumed to act.
The statute does not contemplate any complaint distinct from the “ accusation and examination in writing under oath.’’ R. S. 1846, p. 189. Inasmuch as the case shows no other such accusation and examination than that of Harriet Donaldson, and that contains all the necessary facts required by law to be enumerated, we do not think that the action of her father outside of and in…
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