Case ID: mich-app_13/html/0213-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lesinski, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. SMITH.
    Criminal Law — Procedure—Consolidation op Causes for Trial.
    Failure of trial court to make a preliminary determination as to whether the 2 distinct charges of crime involved in a trial arose out of the same transaction, and consolidation of the causes into one trial were not error when it was at the request of defense counsel that the causes were consolidated.
    Reference for Points )n Headnqte
    53 Am Jur, Trial § 67.
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Schemanske (Prank G.), J.
    Submitted Division 1 March 7, 1968, at Detroit.
    (Docket Nos. 3,874, 3,875.)
    Decided September 4, 1968.
    Lemmie Lee Smith was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon on his person and possession of narcotics. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengo ski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Thomas P. Smith, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Robert J. McClear, for defendant on appeal.
   Lesinski, C. J.

Defendant appeals from his conviction and sentence in the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit on the charges of carrying a concealed weapon on his person and possession of narcotics.

Defendant, on appeal, raises the argument that the trial court committed reversible error in failing to make a preliminary determination as to whether the two charges arose out of the same transaction and, further, that the court abused its discretion by consolidating both causes into one trial. Defendant, with counsel present, waived a trial by jury and the matters were tried tog-ether.

This Court finds without merit both of the contentions of defendant, as it was at the request of defense counsel in this cause that the matters were consolidated.

Affirmed.

Levin and Andrews, JJ., concurred. 
      
       CL 1948, § 750.227 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.424).
     
      
       OLS 196i, § 335.153 (Stat Ann 1957 Rev § 18.1 123).