Elliott v. People

'Campbell J.:

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit on an information for embezzlement, and was sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for two years. He now' alleges for error that no sentence could lawfully he given requiring him to he confined in that prison more than one year, and that a longer sentence must he only to the State Prison. The statute punishing the offence provides for imprisonment in the State Prison not more than five years, or in the County Jail not more than one year, with a fine. — 2 C L., §5762, §5773.

By Section 16 of the Act…