PEOPLE v. McMILLAN

Docket No. 14304.

49 Mich. App. 16 (1973)

211 N.W.2d 226

PEOPLE v. McMILLAN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Walter W. Turton, Prosecuting Attorney, and Peter R. George, Chief Appellate Attorney, for the people.

Richard S. McMillin, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant.

Before: T.M. BURNS, P.J., and McGREGOR and VAN VALKENBURG, JJ.


McGREGOR, J.

Defendant was charged, in an information filed on January 4, 1972, with first-degree murder, MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548, in the beating death of his seven-year-old adopted son. The child was beaten on November 5, 1971, and died the following day of an acute subdural hematoma. The people's case was based wholly on circumstantial evidence, there being no eyewitnesses to the alleged crime. The defense filed a...

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