PEOPLE v. GENERAL DYNAMICS

Docket No. 88066.

175 Mich. App. 701 (1989)

438 N.W.2d 359

PEOPLE v. GENERAL DYNAMICS LAND SYSTEMS, INC

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Theodore S. Klimaszewski, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

Michael H. Golde, and Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile, P.C. (by John P. Hancock, Jr.), for defendant.

Before: SULLIVAN, P.J., and GRIBBS and E.C. PENZIEN, JJ.


SULLIVAN, P.J.

Judge PENZIEN has laid out the facts in this matter, and they need not be recited here. We agree with his conclusion as to Count II, the MIOSHA count, which should have been dismissed. The manslaughter charge, however, is a different matter. He concludes that a corporation is not sufficiently a "person" to be the perpetrator of a manslaughter. As he correctly notes, the crime of manslaughter is not defined in our statutes but, rather, we are directed...

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