PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

Docket No. 2,750.

13 Mich. App. 69 (1968)

163 N.W.2d 688

PEOPLE v. JOHNSON.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Leave to appeal granted February 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Bruce A. Barton, Prosecuting Attorney, and Vincent F. Stapley, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

William F. Goler, for defendant.


T.G. KAVANAGH, J.

Roger Johnson, while at Jackson state prison, was charged with the murder of Frank Clark, a fellow inmate, on October 24, 1965. The defendant does not deny that he stabbed Clark, but he claims that he acted in self-defense.

The jury found Johnson guilty of murder in the second degree.1 The appeal lists 6 asserted errors, 3 dealing with the court's ruling on objections...

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