In 1936, the Michigan Supreme Court, in the case of People v. The indecent crimes included not only sodomy and gross indecency, but also "indecent language in the presence or hearing of any woman or child," "any disorderly conduct involving sex," or "any other crime or offense of like nature." The law established a procedure to refer those convicted of "indecent crimes" to state hospitals if certain criteria were met. In 1935, Michigan became the first state in the nation to enact a "psychopathic offender" law. The gross indecency law was changed to lower the maximum fine from $5,000 to $2,500. In 1931, the crimes against nature sodomy law was amended to add that even the slightest penetration was sufficient to complete the crime. In 1923, the sodomy law was amended to eliminate the need to prove emission of semen to prove the crime. In 1922, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the gross indecency law in the case of People v.
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In 1903, a "gross indecency" law was enacted by the Michigan Legislature, further criminalizing non-heterosexual activity. In 1897, Michigan enacted a unique ancillary law that prohibited the debauching of boys, which had two separate sections dealt with female and male violators.
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Hodgkin, where the court decided that the failure of the legislature to retain the language about penetration completing an act of sodomy in the 1846 code meant that proof of emission had to be established in order to convict. Later in 1892, the Michigan Supreme Court decided People v. Graney, which upheld a sodomy conviction on appeal.
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In 1892, the first sodomy trial to go to the Michigan Supreme Court was People v. The legislature did not retain the language about the crime being complete upon penetration only. In 1846, a new code of laws adopted the penalty for sodomy was raised to a maximum of 15 years, and the provision for a fine was eliminated.
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In 1820, added a new code which specified the fine for sodomy at a maximum of $300 and reduced the maximum penalty to three years, still at solitary hard labor. In 1818, all of Michigan was incorporated into the Michigan Territory. The penalty was decreed as an unspecified fine and solitary imprisonment at hard labor for up to 21 years. The first official prohibition of sodomy occurred in 1816, when a new criminal code weighed sodomy as being of lesser heinous effect than murder, manslaughter, and treason and ahead of rape. It is unclear from the missing Code of 1800 if this law or a similar one had been in force in Michigan, but, if so, it was repealed as of this date. In 1810, the Michigan Territory decided to go its own way with law, enacting a statute that abrogated all laws of Great Britain, Canada, French, the Northwest Territory, the Indiana Territory, and all laws enacted by itself between specified dates in 18. This included penalty of up to five years in prison, a fine of $100–$500, and up to 500 lashes for sodomy. In 1809, a part of Michigan became part of the Illinois Territory, which adopted a statute of all laws of the Indiana Territory. In 1805, most of Michigan became a separate territory and enacted its own criminal code. None of the original laws of the Territory is known to exist today. In 1800, Michigan became part of the Indiana Territory. This included the English buggery statute that mandated a sentence of death for male-male buggery. The Northwest Territory had adopted a statute in 1795 that received all of the common law of England as well as all English statutes adopted prior to the English settlement of North America in 1607. In 1796, under terms negotiated in the 1794 Jay Treaty, Britain withdrew from Michigan and it was adopted into the Northwest Territory. When Quebec split into Lower and Upper Canada in 1791, Michigan was part of Kent County, Upper Canada. The Quebec Act of 1774 incorporated Michigan into the Province of Quebec.
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In 1763, Michigan was transferred to Great Britain's Indian Reserve and adopted British buggery statute that mandated a sentence of death for male-male buggery. 4.2 Local level anti-discrimination ordinances (1972–present)įrom 1660 to 1763, Michigan was part of the Royal Province of New France, which included France's laws making sodomy a capital offense.