PEOPLE v. GILL

Docket No. 7419.

31 Mich. App. 395 (1971)

187 N.W.2d 707

PEOPLE v. GILL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 22, 1971.


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, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Jerome F. O'Rourke (James Bearinger, of counsel), for defendant on appeal.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and T.M. BURNS, JJ.


R.B. BURNS, P.J.

The facts leading to defendant's first-degree murder1 conviction are relatively uncomplicated and, with few exceptions, undisputed.

On the morning of August 24, 1967, the half-nude body of a 17-year-old girl was found in a creek lying face down in four to six inches of water. She had been severely beaten about the face and head and apparently dragged by her feet, on her back, from some bushes in a nearby park to...

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