Michigan Supreme Court, 1874

In re Sorenson

In re Sorenson
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided July 10, 1874
29 Mich. 475; 1874 Mich. LEXIS 111

In re Sorenson

Opinion of the Court

The Court

held that'these proceedings before the justice are in their form civil and not criminal proceedings, and do not authorize a sentence to imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction under the act (Comp. L., § 8IBS) authorizing an imprisonment therein, under certain circumstances, of any person convicted of any crime or misdemeanor not punishable by imprisonment in the state prison; and that aside from said statute, a justice of the peace of Manistee county has no authority to sentence to imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction.

Prisoner discharged.

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