Case Name: PEOPLE v. PACE
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1968-11-25
Citations: 14 Mich. App. 248
Docket Number: Docket No. 3,958
Parties: PEOPLE v. PACE
Judges: McGregor, P. J., and Quinn and Letts, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 14
Pages: 248–249

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. PACE
1. Criminal Law — Due Process — Right of Defendant to be Informed of Charge — Sufficiency of Information.
Criminal information charging defendant with “safe burglary,” although the statute designates the erime as “safe robbery,” held, sufficient to inform defendant of the nature of the charge against him (CL 1948, § 750.531).
2. Same — Warrant—Authorization of Warrant — Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.
Trial court has jurisdiction over defendant where the authorization for the issuance of an arrest warrant was signed by an assistant prosecuting attorney without any showing that the prosecuting attorney was absent or disabled (CL 1948, § 49.42).
References for Points in Headnotes
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 325.
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 441.
Appeal from Genesee, Parker (Donn D.), J.
Submitted Division 2 November 4, 1968, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 3,958.)
Decided November 25, 1968.
David E. Pace was convicted of safe robbery. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert F. Leonard, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald A. Kuebler, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for tbe people.
Ronald J. Brewer, for defendant on appeal.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
A jury returned a guilty verdict for the crime of "safe burglary", CL 1948, § 750.531 (Stat Ann 1954 Eev § 28.799), as described in tbe information read to tbe jury. Defendant claims that tbe use of the above phrase, rather than tbe statutory designation of "safe robbery", caused tbe complaint, warrant and information inadequately to inform Mm of the charge against him. In People v. Greenway (1962), 365 Mich 547, although the court reversed defendant's conviction on other grounds, it found "no merit to defendant's contention that he was tried for a crime not known to Michigan law ". The information in that case contained the designation of "safe breaking". Consequently, we will not indulge defendant's semantical hairsplitting.
Defendant's contention that his in-custody admissions, made without prior advice of his rights to counsel and silence, were inadmissible, is conclusively controlled by People v. Green (1967), 7 Mich App 346, 350, and the cases cited therein, which outline the applicable standards in trials which, as here, commenced in the interim between Escobedo and Miranda Defendant did not request counsel during custody nor raise timely objection at trial. Thus, the evidential entrance of his admissions was not reversible error.
Defendant also contends that the trial court did not have jurisdiction over defendant as the written authorization for the warrant was signed by an assistant prosecuting attorney without any showing that the prosecuting attorney was absent or disabled. Since, under CL 1948, § 49.42 (Stat Ann 1961 Eev § 5.802), an assistant prosecuting attorney is empowered to authorize an arrest warrant's issuance, defendant's third allegation of lack of trial court jurisdiction is an egregious error.
Affirmed.
McGregor, P. J., and Quinn and Letts, JJ., concurred.
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), 378 US 478 (84 S Ct 1758, 12 L Ed 2d 977); Miranda v. Arizona (1966), 384 US 436 (86 S Ct 1602, 16 L Ed 2d 694, 10 ALR3d 974)—Reporter.