Case Name: In re PETITION OF MOLISAK
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1939-11-09
Citations: 291 Mich. 46
Docket Number: Docket No. 129, Calendar No. 40,299
Parties: In re PETITION OF MOLISAK.
Judges: Bittzel, C. J., and Bushnell, Sharpe, Potter, Chandler, North, and McAllister, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 291
Pages: 46–49

Head Matter:
In re PETITION OF MOLISAK.
1. Certiorari — Habeas Corpus — Review of Evidence.
On certiorari from denial of habeas corpus, the Supreme Court does not pass upon the weight of the evidence but examines the evidence to note whether the finding of the court was supported by any credible evidence.
2. Same — Habeas Corpus — Evidence—Alibi—-Identification by Complaining Witness — Police Record.
Oh certiorari to review habeas corpus proceeding, instituted on behalf of one detained for extradition on charge of embezzlement in Ohio, trial court’s rejection of alibi held, supported by testimony of complaining witness who positively identified petitioner; it being immaterial whether or not accused’s police record was admissible in such proceeding.
3. Extradition — Sufficiency of Complaint — Embezzlement.
Complaint on charge of embezzlement in Ohio-, whieh followed the Ohio statute, averring that petitioner for habeas corpus, as agent of. complaining witness, did fraudulently embezzle and convert to his own use a specified sum whieh came into his possession by virtue of his employment as agent by said complaining witness held, fairly to import the money was owned by the complaining witness and a sufficient basis for rendition of petitioner in extradition proceedings (Throckmorton’s Annotated Ohio Code [Baldwin’s 1934 Rev.], § 12467).
4. Same- — Statutes—Demand—Sufficiincy.
Demand for extradition consisting of Ohio prosecuting attorney’s application to his governor, setting forth the making of the complaint, the issuance of a warrant, and to which was annexed the affidavit of complaining witness setting up the time, place, and circumstances of the alleged commission of the crime, held, a sufficient compliance with statute relative to extradition (Act No. 144, § 3, Pub. Acts 1937).
Appeal from Wayne; Brennan (Vincent M.), J.
Submitted September 20, 1939.
(Docket No. 129, Calendar No. 40,299.)
Decided November 9,1939.
Petition for writ of habeas corpus by John Molisak to tbe circuit court of Wayne county to procure bis release from custody of tbe sheriff of Wayne county. Petition denied. Petitioner reviews by appeal in the nature of certiorari.
Affirmed.
Harry J. Lippman (Leslie D. Bloom, of counsel), for petitioner.
Thomas Read, Attorney General, Duncan G. Mc-Grea, Prosecuting Attorney, and William L. Brunner and John L. Bannigan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for tbe people.

Opinion:
Wiest, J.
In compliance witb tbe provisions of Act No. 144, Pub. Acts 1937 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1937, §17512-1 et seq., Stat. Ann. 1939 Cum. Supp. § 28.1285[1] et seq.), known as tbe uniform criminal extradition act, tbe governor of tbe State of Michigan, on June 20, 1938, issued bis warrant for tbe arrest of John Molisak as an alleged fugitive from justice from tbe State of Ohio.
In tbe State of Ohio a complaint and warrant charged Molisak witb tbe crime of embezzlement and tbe governor of that State demanded bis rendition. Rendition was granted. Thereupon, on June 21, 1938, Molisak, by bis attorney, petitioned tbe Wayne circuit court for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that be was never in tbe city of Cleveland, Ohio, where tbe embezzlement was charged to have been committed on May 29, 1931, and denied being tbe John Molisak sought in tbe extradition proceeding.
At the hearing on tbe petition in tbe Wayne circuit, May Sherman was a witness and positively identified Molisak as the man who embezzled $2,000 in money sbe handed to him at her home in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29,1931. Six witnesses in behalf of Molisak testified that he was at his mother-in-law's farm, near Pinconning, Michigan, May 29, 1931, and for some days before and after that date.
The court, over objection, admitted Molisak's police record in evidence. The court found the alibi not established, and review by appeal in the nature of certiorari is here prosecuted.
In this review we do not pass upon the weight of the evidence, only making an examination to note whether the finding of the court was supported by any credible evidence. The court believed the complaining witness; and we cannot decide the issue of alibi otherwise in this review. Whether petitioner's police record was admissible or not is of no decisive moment.
Counsel for petitioner claims the complaint made in Ohio did not sufficiently charge the crime of embezzlement in that it did not state whose money was taken.
The complaint averred that John Molisak, on May 29,1931, at the county of Cuyahoga, as the agent of May Sherman, did fraudulently embezzle and convert to his own use the sum of $2,000, which came into his possession by virtue of his employment as agent by said May Sherman, contrary to the statute, et cetera. The charge followed the Ohio statute, Throckmorton's Annotated Code (Baldwin's 1934 Rev.), § 12467, and fairly imports that the money was owned by May Sherman. Upon the subject of examination into an alleged crime in this kind of a proceeding, see Dragisick v. Judge of Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit, 195 Mich. 112.
Act No. 144, § 3, Pub. Acts 1937 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1937, § 17512-3, Stat. Ann. 1939 Cum. Supp. § 28.1285[3]), provides:
"No demand for extradition of a person charged with a crime in another State shall be recognized by the governor unless in writing, accompanied by the following papers:
"Prosecutor's application for requisition for the return of a person charged with crime, wherein shall be stated:
"(c) The approximate time, place and circumstances of its commission."
Petitioner claims that this was not complied with in that the approximate time, place and circumstances of the commission of the alleged crime were not given.
The prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga county, in his application to the governor of Ohio, set forth the making of the complaint, the issuance of a warrant, and annexed thereto the affidavit of May Sherman, setting up the time, place and circumstances of the alleged commission of the crime.
The mentioned statute does not require a statement of the evidence. We find no merit in the point.
Review of this proceeding discloses no error, and the order of the circuit court, refusing discharge of petitioner from custody, is affirmed.
Bittzel, C. J., and Bushnell, Sharpe, Potter, Chandler, North, and McAllister, JJ., concurred.