PEOPLE v. WICHMAN

Docket No. 2,715.

15 Mich. App. 110 (1968)

166 N.W.2d 298

PEOPLE v. WICHMAN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, George N. Parris, Prosecuting Attorney, Thaddeus F. Hamera, Chief Appellate Lawyer and Max D. McCullough, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Steve S. Michaels, for defendant.


LEVIN, J.

The defendant appeals his jury trial conviction of armed robbery, claiming that the trial judge's instructions taken as a whole were so prejudicial that he was deprived of a fair trial.

The question presented involves an interpretation of the provisions conferring upon trial judges the power to comment on the evidence when instructing the jury, a power conferred on Michigan trial judges in both civil and criminal cases some 40 years ago as part of...

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