Case ID: mich_247/html/0536-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clark, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. DAVIS.
    Intoxicating Liquor — Searches and Seizures — Arrest—Evidence —Admissibility.
    Intoxicating liquor, found by officers in defendant’s automobile when he was legally arrested for driving an automobile on a city street at an unlawful speed, was admissible in evidence in his prosecution for illegal possession of intoxicating liquors; his arrest being legal, search of his person and automobile was proper.-
    Error to Genesee; Parker (James S.), J.
    Submitted June 13, 1929.
    (Docket No. 136, Calendar No. 34,366.)
    Decided July 8, 1929.
    Dwight Davis was convicted of a violation of the liquor law.
    Affirmed.
    
      
      Herbert W. Smith, for appellant.
    
      Wilber M. Brucher, Attorney General, Charles D. Beagle, Prosecuting Attorney, and Philip Elliott, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
   Clark, J.

Defendant was driving an automobile on a street in Flint at an excessive and unlawful speed. Police officers stopped and arrested him for this offense. They immediately searched the automobile and found therein intoxicating liquor, for the unlawful possession of which defendant was tried, convicted, and sentenced. His assignments of error as briefed present the question that his motion to suppress the evidence as having been obtained in violation of his constitutional right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures ought not to have been denied. The arrest here was lawful, and that it therefore was proper for the officers to search the person of defendant and the vehicle in which he was then riding is settled by the following authorities, from which we need not quote: People v. Cona, 180 Mich. 641; People v. Conway, 225 Mich. 152; People v. Du Shane, 240 Mich. 35; 39 A. L. R. 818, note.

Affirmed.

North, C. J., and Bead, Fellows, Wiest, McDonald, Potter, and Sharpe, JJ., concurred.