PEOPLE v. BESONEN

Docket No. 37.

4 Mich. App. 131 (1966)

144 N.W.2d 653

PEOPLE v. BESONEN.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

John D. O'Connell, for defendant.


J.H. GILLIS, P.J.

Upon leave granted by the Supreme Court the defendant, Woodrow Besonen, prosecutes this appeal from his conviction on September 24, 1959, of second-degree murder.1

The body of George Sweigert was found partly submerged in the laundry tubs in the basement of his home on the morning of February 6, 1959. He was killed by a blunt instrument that was used to inflict multiple compound fractures of the skull and bones...

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