Section 767.1 - Courts of record; jurisdiction over prosecutions upon information. - Michigan Statutes

THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (EXCERPT)
Act 175 of 1927

767.1 Courts of record; jurisdiction over prosecutions upon information.

Sec. 1.

The several circuit courts of this state, the recorders' courts and any court of record having jurisdiction of criminal causes, shall possess and may exercise the same power and jurisdiction to hear, try and determine prosecutions upon informations for crimes, misdemeanors and offenses, to issue writs and process and do all other acts therein as they possess and may exercise in cases of like prosecutions upon indictments.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17215 ;-- CL 1948, 767.1
Former Law: See sections 1 and 9 of Act 138 of 1859, being CL 1871, §§ 7937 and 7945; How., §§ 9548 and 9556; CL 1897, §§ 11933 and 11941; and CL 1915, §§ 15760 and 15768.