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People v. Davis

Supreme Court of Michigan
Jul 8, 1929
247 Mich. 536 (Mich. 1929)

Opinion

Docket No. 136, Calendar No. 34,366.

Submitted June 13, 1929.

Decided July 8, 1929.

Error to Genesee; Parker (James S.), J. Submitted June 13, 1929. (Docket No. 136, Calendar No. 34,366.) Decided July 8, 1929.

Dwight Davis was convicted of a violation of the liquor law. Affirmed.

Herbert W. Smith, for appellant.

Wilber M. Brucker, Attorney General, Charles D. Beagle, Prosecuting Attorney, and Philip Elliott, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.


Defendant was driving an automobile on a street in Flint at an excessive and unlawful speed. Police officers stopped and arrested him for this offense. They immediately searched the automobile and found therein intoxicating liquor, for the unlawful possession of which defendant was tried, convicted, and sentenced. His assignments of error as briefed present the question that his motion to suppress the evidence as having been obtained in violation of his constitutional right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures ought not to have been denied. The arrest here was lawful, and that it therefore was proper for the officers to search the person of defendant and the vehicle in which he was then riding is settled by the following authorities, from which we need not quote: People v. Cona, 180 Mich. 641; People v. Conway, 225 Mich. 152; People v. Du Shane, 240 Mich. 35; 39 A.L.R. 818, note.

Affirmed.

NORTH, C.J., and FEAD, FELLOWS, WIEST, McDONALD, POTTER, and SHARPE, JJ., concurred.


Summaries of

People v. Davis

Supreme Court of Michigan
Jul 8, 1929
247 Mich. 536 (Mich. 1929)
Case details for

People v. Davis

Case Details

Full title:PEOPLE v. DAVIS

Court:Supreme Court of Michigan

Date published: Jul 8, 1929

Citations

247 Mich. 536 (Mich. 1929)
226 N.W. 337

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