Case Name: PEOPLE v. STARBIRD
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1924-03-05
Citations: 226 Mich. 338
Docket Number: Docket No. 157
Parties: PEOPLE v. STARBIRD.
Judges: McDonald, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Steere, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 226
Pages: 338–340

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. STARBIRD.
1. Appeal and Error — Evidence—Saving Question for Review.
A question as to the admissibility of evidence, raised for the first time in the Supreme Court, will not be considered.
2. Same — Conduct of Court — Saving Question for Review.
Objection to the comment of the trial court upon defendant’s failure to take the stand in his own behalf, in a prosecution for larceny, will not be considered by the Supreme Court, where not covered by an assignment of error.
3. Same — Argument of Prosecutor — Saving Question for Review.
Mere exceptions to alleged improper remarks of the prosecuting attorney, without request that the jury he cautioned or instructed in respect thereto, held, not to save said question for review.
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Marsh (Pliny W.), J.
Submitted February 15, 1924.
(Docket No. 157.)
Decided March 5, 1924.
Clyde Starbird was convicted of larceny.
Affirmed.
Arthur Sauve {Philip H. Cale, of counsel), for appellant.
Andrew B. Dougherty, Attorney General, Paul W. Voorhies, Prosecuting Attorney, and Robert M. Toms, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Opinion:
Clark, C. J.
Defendant reviews on error a judgment upon conviction of larceny. The property in question was a Ford coupe, on which the license plates and engine numbers had been changed. Following the arrest, certain dies were taken from defendant's home and offered and received in evidence. It is urged that the dies were procured by means of an unlawful search and seizure. This question was not raised in the trial court, and, therefore, will not be considered here.
It is said that the court erred in his comment upon defendant's failure to take the stand as a witness in his own behalf. This is not covered by an assignment of error, and, therefore, will not be considered.
Certain remarks of the prosecuting attorney are said to be improper. They were excepted to merely. There was no request that the jury be cautioned or instructed respecting such remarks, which, if improper, could have been cured by an instruction. Hence they will not be discussed. People v. Osborn, 205 Mich. 531; Walz v. Insurance Co., 221 Mich. 326.
Other questions presented have been considered. No reversible error appears.
Judgment affirmed.
McDonald, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Steere, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.