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BULLOCK v. UNITED STATES

No. 7634.

122 F.2d 213 (1941)

BULLOCK v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 30, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eli Grubic and T. Emmett McKenzie, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Dennis McCarthy, of Washington, D. C. (E. M. Curran, Charles Murray, and Arthur McLaughlin, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and VINSON and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree. The trial judge instructed the jury that, though "deliberate and premeditated malice"1 involves turning over in the mind an intention to kill, "it does not take any appreciable length of time to turn a thought of that kind over in your mind." In 1931, this court said as much.2 But in 1937 we approved the opposite rule...

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