PEOPLE v. WATSON

Docket No. 14427.

52 Mich. App. 211 (1974)

217 N.W.2d 121

PEOPLE v. WATSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Thomas M. Khalil, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Leonard Townsend, for defendant.

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


V.J. BRENNAN, P.J.

Defendant, Joe Eddy Watson, appeals from his conviction of first-degree murder (MCLA 750.316; MSA 28,548) by a jury in the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit.

On this appeal defendant initially asserts, as he did in his motion for new trial, that his conviction and sentence should be reversed because the jury's verdict was against the great weight of the evidence. The proper standard by which we must judge such a claim is whether the...

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