People v. Ward

{for reversal). Upon complaint of' a deputized weighmaster employed by the Wayne county road commission, a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace accusing defendant — as lessee of the truck found overloaded — of guilt under pres ently considered section 724 * of the Michigan vehicle code. Conviction and appeal to the circuit court followed. Trial to the court resulted in grant of defendant’s motion to quash and discharge on ground "that the people had failed to prove that he, distinguished from his employee-driver, was guilty as •charged.

It’ was not shown that defendant counseled or…