Case Name: PEOPLE v. COPELAND
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1967-01-04
Citations: 378 Mich. 611
Docket Number: Calendar No. 4, Docket No. 51,213
Parties: PEOPLE v. COPELAND.
Judges: T. M. Kavanagh, C. J., concurred with Kelly, J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 378
Pages: 611–613

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. COPELAND.
This case is controlled by People v. Mallory, 378 Mich 538.
Appeal by leave granted from Court of Appeals, Division 1; Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Watts, JJ., order denying leave to appeal from an order of Recorder’s Court for the City of Detroit; Schemanske (Frank Gf.), J., of November 2, 1964,. denying defendant appellate counsel and transcript.
Submitted April 6, 1966.
(Calendar No. 4, Docket No. 51,213.)
Decided January 4, 1967.
Larry Tyrone Copeland was convicted of assault and battery.
Reversed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and James E. Lacey, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Goodman, Crockett, Eden, Robb S Philo (Rolland R. O’Hare and Sheldon M. Meidish, of counsel), for defendant.
Amicus Curiae:
Civil Liberties Committee of the State Bar of Michigan, by Irving Tukel.

Opinion:
Kelly, J.
Defendant was convicted of assault and battery by recorder's court Judge Hon. Prank Gr. Schemanske and sentenced to 90 days in the Detroit House of Correction. He was not represented by counsel.
At the conclusion of the 90-day sentence defendant was returned to prison. The chairman of the Michigan department of corrections parole board explains his return as follows:
"He served his term at the Detroit house of correction, was returned to prison and found to be automatically guilty of violating his parole by reason of his conviction."
This is a companion case to People v. Mallory, 378 Mich 538, and the reasons set forth in my concurring opinion for reversal in that case apply to the present case.
Reversed and remanded to recorder's court for appointment, upon finding of indigency, of appellate counsel for defendant and furnishing of all portions of the transcript and record essential in preparation of postconviction motions and appeal.
T. M. Kavanagh, C. J., concurred with Kelly, J.