Legal Opinion

People v. Carey

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1901PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Error to Lapeer; Smith, J. James Carey was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years in the State prison at Jackson.

1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of larceny of some cattle, which the evidence shows to have disappeared from their owner’s field, and later to have been butchered in Port Huron, with the exception of one, which was found upon the premises of *537the father of an alleged particeps criminis of the defendant, who had, previous to the trial in this case, been convicted of the same offense that the defendant was subsequently convicted of. No witness was produced who saw the cattle taken from the field, but several testified to meeting two men driving some cattle about the time, and the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. LaMunionMichigan Supreme Court · 1887
  2. People v. FosterMichigan Supreme Court · 1887

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. People v. MacPhersonMichigan Supreme Court · 1949
  2. People v. MedcoffMichigan Supreme Court · 1955
  3. Commonwealth v. DucaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
  4. People v. PetroskyMichigan Supreme Court · 1938
  5. State v. JenningsOregon Supreme Court · 1929

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