People v. Bradley

• Decision Date: 24 July 1928
• Docket Number: No. 119,June Term.,119
• Citation: People v. Bradley, 243 Mich. 609, 220 N.W. 788 (Mich. 1928)
• Parties: PEOPLE v. BRADLEY.
• Court: Michigan Supreme Court

243 Mich. 609

220 N.W. 788

PEOPLE

v.BRADLEY.

No. 119, June Term.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

July 24, 1928.

Error to Circuit Court, Van Buren County; Glenn E. Warner, Judge.

Margaret Bradley was convicted of having intoxicating liquor illegally in her possession, and she brings error.Affirmed.

Argued before FEAD, C. J., and NORTH, FELLOWS, WIEST, CLARK, McDONALD, and SHARPE, JJ.W. J. Barnard and W. W. Holbrook, both of Paw Paw, for appellant.

Robert H. Cavanaugh, Pros.Atty., of Paw Paw, and Wilbur Brucker, Atty. Gen., for the People.

SHARPE, J.

Defendant seeks review by writ of error of her conviction on a charge of having intoxicating liquor illegally in her possession.

1.Motion to Suppress.—The facts disclosed on the submission of this motion were as follows: Albert Funk, a member of the state police, while patrolling the highway (U. S. 12) west of Paw Paw on a motorcycle, met a Studebaker coupé, and, as it passed him, he noticed ‘that the car was riding real high, and had oversized tires on the rear’; that it looked suspicious, and he turned and followed it, and, ‘as it broke over a knoll,’he saw two ‘tanks projecting down underneath this car’; that he overtook the car and signaled for it to stop at the curb; that in it were the defendant, the driver of the car, and another woman and a child; that he asked for defendant's certificate of registration, and she said that she owned the car, but the certificate was in Detroit; that he then asked what she had in the tanks underneath the car, and she said there was nothing there; that he requested them to alight, and they did so, and he then asked her permission to search the car, and she said, ‘Go ahead’; that he did so and found 36 quarts of Scotch whisky, 12 quarts of Imperial whisky, and 142 pints of Old Colonial Whisky concealed in the tanks; that defendant requested that her passenger be permitted to go, ‘for she has nothign to do with it; she didn't know that I had...