People v. Gray

Respondent was convicted in the circuit court of the offense of having “in his possession dynamite, with intent to willfully and maliciously destroy the dwelling house of one Arthur L. Morse, contrary to the statute” (section 11599, 3 Comp. Laws). Respondent and one Lewis La Fever owned two saloons in the village of Vanderbilt, Otsego county, in this State. These saloons were run in the name of Charles La Fever, son of respondent’s partner, and respondent was one of the sureties on his bond. Said Arthur L. Morse was the village marshal of Vanderbilt, and it was the theory of the people that…