People v. White
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before sentence from Grand Traverse; Mayne, J. James S. White was convicted of having taken indecent liberties with the person of a girl under the age of fourteen years.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Respondent was informed against and convicted in the circuit court for Grand Traverse county for having taken indecent and improper liberties with the person of Mildred Skiver, a girl 11 years of age. We are asked to review the proceedings on exceptions before sentence.
The offense was charged to have been committed on July 12, 1915. At this time respondent was 55 years of age, and was a retail grocery dealer in the city of Grand Traverse. Mildred lived a block from his store.. About noon on the day in question Mildred went to the store to obtain some groceries. Her story is, in substance,…
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