People v. Mallette
Decision Date | 20 February 1890 |
Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
Parties | PEOPLE v. MALLETTE. |
Error to circuit court, Menominee county; J. H. STEERE, Judge
Don Cameron, for appellant.
A. C. Cook, Pros. Atty., for the People.
Respondent was convicted of keeping a house of ill fame in the city of Menominee, between the 1st and 17th days of December, 1889. The charter of the city of Menominee, granted in 1883, provided that the common council "might prohibit and suppress all disorderly houses and places, houses of ill fame, assignation houses," etc., and punish the keepers thereof by a fine not to exceed $500, or by imprisonment not to exceed six months." The statute under which respondent was convicted was passed March 18, 1887. It provides that "every person who shall keep a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, shall be punished," etc. [1] It is claimed that the provision of the charter is repugnant to and inconsistent with the act of 1887, and that, therefore, the operation of the general law is suspended within the city limits. The council had passed an ordinance under this provision of the charter. There might be some force in the claim that the law of 1887 repealed the provision of the charter covering the same subject-matter. That point, however, has been settled by this court in People v. Hanrahan, 75 Mich. 611, 42 N.W. 1124. But that a general law of the state covering criminal cases is superseded by city charters, granted prior to the passage of the general law, is a proposition repugnant to reason and common sense, and unsupported by precedent.
The record shows that the respondent kept the house; that men resorted to it for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness; that frequent acts of prostitution were there committed with the respondent; and that it was reputed to be a house of ill fame. This was sufficient evidence to constitute the offense. It was not necessary to show that other lewd women resorted there. Conviction is affirmed, and the circuit court directed to proceed to judgment upon the verdict. The other justices concurred.
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Notes:
[1] This act imposes a greater penalty than was allowed by the charter, or fixed by the ordinance passed in accordance therewith.
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