Evans v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent Circuit. The plaintiff in error was informed against for murder, as follows: “State oe Michigan, Kent County, ss.- The Circuit Court for the County of Kent.
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Error to Kent Circuit. The plaintiff in error was informed against for murder, as follows: “State oe Michigan, Kent County, ss.- The Circuit Court for the County of Kent. E. G. D. Holden, prosecuting attorney for the county of Kent aforesaid, for and in behalf of The People of the State of Michigan, comes into said Court, in the March term thereof, a. d. 1863, and gives it here to understand and be informed, that George C. Evans, late of the city of Grand Rapids, of the county of Kent, on the .eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at the city of Grand Rapids, county…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
Evans, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of manslaughter in killing one Coban Balch. Error is brought on two grounds: First. That the information is insufficient to sustain the conviction; and Second. That evidence was received which was inadmissible.
The error alleged in the information is, that while, in the concluding portion,' it is averred that Evans did “ kill and murder,’’ it does not there show the name of the' *33person killed, and so contains no charge of the slaying of Balch. With this exception, the information is in the full form of a common law indictment for murder,…
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