PEOPLE v. KYLLONEN

Docket Nos. 58026, 58169. (Calendar Nos. 3, 4).

402 Mich. 135 (1978)

262 N.W.2d 2

PEOPLE v. KYLLONEN PEOPLE v. FRUM

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 23, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, for the people.

Torger Omdahl, Prosecuting Attorney, and Mark I. Leach, Assistant Attorney General, for the people in Kyllonen.

L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, and Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel (by James L. McCarthy, Assistant Appellate Counsel), for the people in Frum.

State Appellate Defender Office (by Barbara R. Levine; Kim R. Fawcett and Michael E. Turner, of counsel) for defendant Kyllonen.

Smith, Magnusson & Chartrand for defendant Frum.


COLEMAN, J.

These separate criminal cases present a single narrow and unique question of statutory interpretation: When the Legislature enacted MCLA 750.535; MSA 28.803,1 which proscribes, inter alia, "aid[ing] in the concealment of * * * stolen * * * property", did it intend to provide an alternate statute under which thieves could be convicted; or did it only intend to cast a net of...

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