Case Name: The People v. Lawrence Luby
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1885-04-29
Citations: 56 Mich. 551
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People v. Lawrence Luby.
Judges: The other Justices concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 551–552

Head Matter:
The People v. Lawrence Luby.
Jury — Nwmfier of jurors.
The constitutional number of jurors in Michigan is twelve except in courts that are not courts of record. In a court of record a conviction by less than twelve jurors where twelve were demanded, must be quashed.
Error to Kalamazoo. (Mills, J.)
April 22.
April 29.
Information for assault and battery. Respondent brings error.
Conviction quashed.
Wm. A. Luby for respondent appellant.
Attorney General Moses Taggart for the People.

Opinion:
Cooley, C. J.
The respondent was convicted in the Recorder's Court of Kalamazoo of a criminal assault and battery, on a trial by a jury of six. He demanded a jury of twelve.
Twelve is the constitutional number of jurors in this State. Hill v. People 16 Mich. 351. The Constitution makes an exception for courts not of record (Art. 6, § 28); but by the statute creating the Recorder's Court of Kalamazoo, it is expressly declared to be a court of record. Local Acts 1883, [No. 337], pp. 677, 694. It does not therefore come within the exception.
The conviction must be quashed.
The other Justices concurred.