PEOPLE v. PEARSON

Docket Nos. 20062, 20063.

61 Mich. App. 366 (1975)

232 N.W.2d 408

PEOPLE v. WILLIE PEARSON PEOPLE v. LINDSEY PEARSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, and Patricia J. Boyle, Principal Attorney, Research, Training & Appeals, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendants.

Before: V.J. BRENNAN, P.J. and D.E. HOLBROOK, JR. and O'HARA, JJ.


Leave to appeal applied for.

O'HARA, J.

These are appeals of right from convictions by a jury of first-degree murder. The charges were laid under our so-called felony-murder statute. MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. The statute by its terms makes any homicide murder in the first degree when committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate certain specified felonies.

The felony here involved is robbery.

Defendants set forth six assignments of...

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