PER CURIAM.
A jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, MCLA § 750.316 (Stat Ann 1971 Cum Supp § 28.548), for which he received a sentence of life imprisonment.
It is asserted that the trial judge erred reversibly when he neglected, sua sponte, to charge the jury on other than first-degree murder. The well-established rule in Michigan is exemplified in People v. Phillips (1971),
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