Case ID: mich-app_19/html/0351-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. HARDEN
    Indictment and Information — Constitutional Law.
    Proceeding by information rather than by indictment does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    41 Am Jur 2d, Indictment and Information §§ 6-9, 25.
    Appeal from Washtenaw, William F. Ager, Jr., J.
    Submitted Division 2 August 19, 1969, at Grand Rapids.
    (Docket No. 6,976.)
    Decided October 1, 1969.
    Rehearing denied November 10, 1969. Leave to appeal denied January 21,1970.
    See 383 Mich 758.
    Willie Harden was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William F. Delhey, Prosecuting Attorney, and Lynwood E. Noah, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Shirley J. Burgoyne, for defendant.
    Before: Holbrook, P. J., and Fitzgerald and T. M. Burns, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant Willie Harden was tried by a jury and convicted of assault with intent to commit murder. MCLA § 750.83 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.278). On appeal lie contends that lie was denied the right to effective assistance of counsel, that the evidence failed to establish the specific intent to commit murder, and that the court lacked jurisdiction since defendant was proceeded against by information rather than by grand jury indictment. The appellee has filed a motion to affirm the conviction.

Our examination of the record convinces us that the defendant was not denied the effective assistance of counsel, and that the record contains sufficient evidence, if believed, to support the jury’s verdict of guilty. Proceeding by information rather than by indictment does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. People v. Simon (1949), 324 Mich 450. The questions presented here on appeal are unsubstantial and require no formal argument or submission.

The motion to affirm the defendant’s conviction is aranted.