PEOPLE v. RAYFORD JOHNSON

Docket Nos. 16482-16483.

52 Mich. App. 385 (1974)

217 N.W.2d 417

PEOPLE v. RAYFORD JOHNSON PEOPLE v. LOVE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 28, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Edward R. Wilson, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for plaintiff.

Alphonso R. Harper, for Recorder's Court Judge.

William B. Daniel, for defendant Johnson.

Before: McGREGOR, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and O'HARA, JJ.


Reversed and remanded for new trial, 391 Mich. 834.

O'HARA, J.

To reconcile the irreconcilable, to attempt to equate the mutually exclusive, is the unending challenge of the judicial process.

This is not all the doing of the courts. The Legislature enacts statutes. The courts create binding case precedents. At times they collide. One must give way to the other or the courts must find a method of accommodation. Such is the situation in the case at bar...

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