Legal Opinion

People v. Calvin

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided February 17, 1886PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Error to Bay. (Green, J.) Information for robbery. Convicted of larceny from the person. Respondent brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. Respondent was tried on an information charging him, under How. Stat. § 9091, with the crime of robbery, and the evidence offered by the people tended to prove that crime, if any. The information was silent as to whether respondent was armed or unarmed. E ow.

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Error to Bay. (Green, J.) Information for robbery. Convicted of larceny from the person. Respondent brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. Respondent was tried on an information charging him, under How. Stat. § 9091, with the crime of robbery, and the evidence offered by the people tended to prove that crime, if any. The information was silent as to whether respondent was armed or unarmed. E ow. Stat. §§ 9089-9091, provide a punishment for the crime of robbery, one when the robber is armed, and one when unarmed. These sections embrace different grades of the same general crime,…

1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.

The respondent in the circuit court for the county of Bay pleaded not guilty to the following information :

“ State of Michigan, County of Bay, ss. — The Circuit Court for the County of Bay:

“John E. Simonson, prosecuting attorney for the county of Bay aforesaid, for and in behalf of the People of the *118State of Michigan, comes into said court, in the June term thereof, A. D. 1885, and gives it here to understand and be informed, that Hulbert Calvin and Skill Doyle, late of the city of Bay City, in the county of Bay, and State of Michigan, heretofore, to-wit: On the seventeenth day of June, in…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. People v. OlmsteadMichigan Supreme Court · 1874
  2. State v. JenkinsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1865
  3. Koster v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1860
  4. People v. ChappellMichigan Supreme Court · 1873
  5. Hall v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1880

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. People v. WakefordMichigan Supreme Court · 1983
  2. Vaughan v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
  3. People v. WilliamsMichigan Supreme Court · 2012
  4. People v. RandolphMichigan Supreme Court · 2002
  5. State v. MelvernWashington Supreme Court · 1903

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