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that both Chief Assistant Prose
cutor Fred Van Fleteren and
Held had handled the matter OF
charges against G.. Boyd Mac
Pherson in an unusual manner.
Macpherson was named IN
warrant issued by Parent May
II charging that he unlaWfully
fled the scene of fatal acct
dent almost FL months ago.
Held has repeatedly refused
to recommend warrant against
Macpherson on the grounds that
he did not believe he could OBJ
tain a conviction. The injunc-
ton action against Parent stems
from his independent issuance
of a warrant five weeks ago.
Macpherson attorneys, Hugh
II. Neale and Larry Davidow
have attempted to prove that
Parent is not a qualified justice
of the peace and seek TO have
the circuit court order him not
to proceed with the hearing of
charges against the oil man.
Nunneley's motion followed
in the wake of long hours of
testimony by Parent himself
during which the justice, who
had left the city with the ap-
proval of the Mount Clemens
City Commission because of i'll
health, had stated that it had
never been his intention to
move permanently from the
community. Hugh II. Neale and
Larry Davidow, attorneys for
Macpherson, had charged that
Parent was not qualified TO
serve as justice because he
had absented himself from the
city for a protracted period.
Parent likewise stated frankly
that he had neglected to pay his
five dollar annual dues as a
member Of the State Bar Asso-
citation.
REJECT CLAIM
The Justices lawyers, in di.
rect examination, h Wever,
maintained that there is nothing
in the Mount Clemens city
charter that says a justice of
the peace must be a practising
attorney. They stressed merely
the fact that justices must have
been admitted to practise law
before the Supreme Court of the
state of Michigan and that Par
ent had complied with that reg
ulation long since.
DUAL CAPACITY
1t also became apparent that
the Mount Clemens police de-
partment has been instructed
not TO take cases before Par.
ent's court pending outcome of
the present bitterly contested
proceedings.
Protracted arguments this aft
ernoon both on the motion itself
and upon similar cases decided
in other courts were anticipated
EXCELLENT WITNESS
Obviously tired after long
hours of merclless cross-exami-
nation by Larry Davidow and
Hugh II. Neale, counsel for the
accused oil company executive,
Justice Parent, however, served
as an excellent witness in his
own defense. He answered le-
Ultimate questions promptly, re-
fused to become confused by in
ferences planted by his interro-
fators and, in general, acquitted
himself exceptionally we'll in the
unaccustomed role Of witness.
CHARGE UNDERSTANDING
Davidow cited statutes which,
he claimed, prohibited lawyers
connected with civil suits of in
terested parties becoming in any
way connected with prosecution
efforts effecting the same cases
or persons. He attempted TO
show that Ray II. Callens, attor-
ney for Mrs. Mary Baldwin,
widow Of Joseph Baldwin who
was run down and killed Oct.
18, 1913 by MacPherson's car.
was guilty OF infringement Of
that provision Of the law. in
asmuch as he had asked Parent
10 issue the warrant for Mac
Pherson arrest upon which
hinges the entire litigation now
before Judge Cash. Davidow and
Reale. on the accused mans be-
half. seek an injunction prohib-
ting Parent from continuing
with the prosecution Of Mac
Pherson and allege, as their rea-
son, that Callens and Parent en-
tered into so-called conspiracy.