PEOPLE v. KRETCHMER

Docket No. 57997, (Calendar No. 15).

404 Mich. 59 (1978)

272 N.W.2d 558

PEOPLE v. KRETCHMER

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, John A. Smietanka, Prosecuting Attorney, and John Jeffrey Long, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James K. Jesse for defendant.


PER CURIAM:

The issue is whether defendant's acquittal of a charge of public intoxication bars, under the "same transaction" rule we adopted in People v White, 390 Mich. 245, 258; 212 N.W.2d 222 (1973), a charge of resisting arrest arising out of the events which led to the charge of public intoxication.

We hold that prosecution is not barred because the two offenses involve laws...

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