PEOPLE v. TORNS

Docket No. 6,187.

23 Mich. App. 238 (1970)

178 N.W.2d 502

PEOPLE v. TORNS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided April 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert F. Leonard, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald A. Kuebler, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James R. Buckley, for defendants on appeal.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and FITZGERALD and VAN DOMELEN, JJ.


FITZGERALD, J.

On July 24, 1967, defendants Samuel Torns and Ernest Brazle were arrested and charged with murder in the first degree contrary to MCLA § 750.316 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.548). The facts which led to their arrest and subsequent conviction are as follows:

On July 23, 1967, defendants were involved in an altercation with Edward Lewis and Ernest McCombs at a house party in the city of Flint. Defendants had been with a group of people across...

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