People v. Clark

Defendant, Lois Marie Clark, was charged with abandoning her child in violation of CLS 1961, § 750.136 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.331). Defendant waived her right to a trial by jury and the trial commenced on May 18, 1965.

The theory of the people’s case is that the defendant, on October 27, 1964, at approximately 10 p.m., took her 5-week-old baby to the second floor of a hotel located in the city of Detroit, that she left the baby on the second floor, went downstairs to the lobby and made an anonymous phone call to the hotel switchboard where she informed the operator that she had left her baby…