REPORT. Lansing, December 31st, 1862. December 31st, 1862. } To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Michigan : In obedience to the requirements of the statute, I have the honor herewith to submit my official report for the year 1862: The case of The People vs. John McKinney, the late State Treasurer, in which he was charged with embezzlement, under sec. 5771 compiled laws, mentioned in my last report as pending in the Supreme Court on bill of exceptions, was argued and submitted at the January term of said Supreme Court, at Lansing; and subsequently at the April term, at Detroit, said Court rendered its decision therein, overruling the exceptions, and directing the Circuit Court for the county of Ingham to proceeed to give judgment upon the verdict, against the defendant. I subsequently appeared on behalf of the people, at the May term, 1862, of the said Circuit Court for the county of Ingham, and filed therein a certified copy of said order and decision, and thereupon a motion for a new trial made by defendant's counsel was argued and submitted, and was overruled by the Court, and at the same term the defendant was sentenced to be imprisoned in the State Prison, at Jackson, for the term of seven years, where he has since been in confinement under said sentence. The other information against him, under section 5772 of the compiled laws, has not been further prosecuted. At the last January term of the Supreme Court, the case of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company vs. Daniel L. Case, late Auditor General, which had been |