Court Opinion

ID: 7956437
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:16:57.713124+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:17.235925
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
Defendant was convicted of resisting an arrest for being drunk and disorderly in a public place. The record discloses ample evidence that appellant was intoxicated at tbe time of the arrest. The question presented is whether the arrest was lawful and, consequently, the resistance unlawful.
Defendant claims that his status as a work-release prisoner awaiting transport back to Federal prison renders him immune from arrest by state authorities. There is no such immunity. Defendant was intoxicated in a public place, an Ypsilanti township intersection, and thereby subject to arrest. CL 1948, § 750.167 as amended by PA 1964, No 144 (Stat Ann 1968 Cum Supp § 28.364). The observations of the. arresting officers provided probable cause for the arrest. Resistance to a legal arrest is illegal. CL 1948, § 750.479 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.747). We find no prejudicial error in the lower court record.
Affirmed.
T. G. Kavanagh, P. J., and McGregor and Philip C. Elliott, JJ., concurred.