Cummins v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. Burglary. Criminal information charging George < Linden, Michael- Moore, William Cummins and John Seipher with breaking into the dwelling house of Anne McFarlin, in the township of Hamtramck, and feloniously taking therefrom a bottle of sherry and a lot of cigars. Cummins was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for seven years.
1Opinion of the CourtMarston, J.
We do not discover any errSr in the record'in this case. The evidence tended to show that Cummins and Seipher slept together in a barn on the night of the burglary, and that in close. proximity to them were found the stolen articles, and that when the officers made the arrest Seipher resisted arrest and escaped. We are of opinion that on the trial of Cummins under such circumstances, the resistance and flight of Seipher was a proper matter to be commented upon by the prosecuting attorney in his argument and considered by the jury.
It also appeared that at the time of the arrest the coat of one…
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