The Criminal Record

The attorney generara report tor the year 1879 forma a pamphlet of sevciitvgix pages. It is issucil as caily is Uic ab itracts from prosecuting attorneys oi the various counties coula beobtained nul arranged. The attorney general ias attended to thirty-five :;uits on beïalf of the state in the pupreme court; ie has received notice f forty chancery ■ases in whichthe Btate la Lnterested,and referred most of them to tRe proaecutng attomeys of different couuties; and ie has autnorized the prosecution by otlier attorneys 01 seven quo wurrum.iv and made application to the suiin-mccDui-t in two cases tonel ingplank ündgravel roads. The abstracts from prosecüting attorneys are unusually luil and lnclude seven move counties than th reporta of last year. The total mimbiT ol' persons prosecuted in Uie Btateinl8TO was9,72i, of which Kent lcads with 925, followed by Saginaw with 84, Jackson 782, Wayne 644, Bay KS9 Lenawee 426, Galbonn 896, Muskegon 850, Lngham 2A1, Kalamazoo 233. The other counties all fall below 200. The total numberof persons prosecuted last year, with eight countit-s lacking, wás 8,245; and the same counties ihis year report 8,551. There were 33 prosecutions for murder in 1879 and Sconvietions; in 1878 tbere were 34 prosecutions and 7 convictions for the same crime.