The Criminal Record

The Criminal Record.

  The attorney general report tor the year 1879 forms a pamphlet of seventy-six pages. It is issued as early as the abstracts from prosecuting attorneys oi the various counties could be obtained and arranged. The attorney general has attended to thirty-five suits on behalf of the state in the supreme court; he has received notice of forty chancery cases in which the state is interested, and referred most of them to the prosecuting attorneys of different counties; and he has authorized the prosecution by other attorneys seven quo warranto and made application to the to the supreme court in two cases touching plank and gravel roads. The abstracts from prosecuting attorneys are unusually full and include seven move counties than the reports of last year. The total number of persons prosecuted in the state, of which Kent leads with 926, followed by Saginaw with 834, Jackson 732, Wayne 644, Bay 469 Lenawee 426, Calhoun 396, Muskegon 350, Ingham 247, Kalamazoo 233. The other counties all fall below 200. The total number of persons prosecuted last year, with eight counties lacking, was 8,245; and the same counties this year report 8,551. There were 33 prosecutions for murder in 1879 and 8 convictions; in 1878 there were 34 prosecutions and 7 convictions for the same crime.