PEOPLE v. HANCOCK

Docket No. 65, Calendar No. 42,918.

326 Mich. 471 (1950)

40 N.W.2d 689

PEOPLE v. HANCOCK.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing granted February 28, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistant Attorney General, and Richard B. Foster, Special Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James E. Haggerty (Hugh V. Williams, of counsel), for appellant Hancock.


Rehearing granted February 28, 1950. See 328 Mich. 143.

SHARPE, J.

Defendant, John Hancock, and others were tried, convicted and sentenced under an information which charged them with a criminal conspiracy to corrupt the 1939 legislature of the State of Michigan by the act of bribery.

The information, under which defendant was tried and convicted, reads as follows:

"Victor C. Anderson, prosecuting attorney...

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