People v. Baker

Tbe defendant, Robert Conrad Baker, appeals his conviction by a judge sitting without a jury of the crime of carrying a concealed weapon.

In People v. Schrader (1968), 10 Mich App 211, 2 our Court held that where the allegedly concealed weapon is a pistol an essential element of the offense is that the accused person did not have a license to carry a pistol. The evidence in that case showed only that a check of the county clerk’s records shortly before the trial indicated that at that time the accused person did not have a license. We held that the people’s proofs were deficient because they…