PEOPLE v. JOHNSTON

Docket No. 83, Calendar No. 44,509.

326 Mich. 213 (1949)

40 N.W.2d 124

PEOPLE v. JOHNSTON. In re INTERVENTION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 7, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General, Graydon G. Withey, Deputy Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Elbern Parsons, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel J. O'Hara and Peter E. Bradt, Assistants Attorney General, for appellant.

Kim Sigler, Special Prosecutor, and Victor C. Anderson, Special Assistant Prosecutor, for appellees.


BUSHNELL, J.

This is an appeal from orders appointing special prosecutors in a criminal case and vacating the intervention in that cause by the attorney general.

Defendant Ivan A. Johnston was charged with accepting a bribe in an information filed September 20, 1948, by the then prosecuting attorney of Macomb county. The newly-elected prosecutor informed the trial judge that his prosecuting staff was inexperienced and he suggested that some other attorney...

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