PEOPLE v. HOFFMEISTER

Docket No. 14490.

52 Mich. App. 219 (1974)

217 N.W.2d 58

PEOPLE v. HOFFMEISTER

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Thomas Kizer, Jr., Prosecuting Attorney (Prosecuting Attorneys Appellate Service, Donald Ubell, Director, by William P. Weiner, of counsel), for the people.

Dank, Peterson & Hay, P.C., for defendant on appeal.

Before: LESINSKI, C.J., and HOLBROOK and BASHARA, JJ.


BASHARA, J.

Defendant, Byron Lee Hoffmeister, was convicted by a jury in Livingston County Circuit Court of murder in the first degree. MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was sentenced on April 18, 1972 to life imprisonment, with the recommendation that the first five years be spent in solitary confinement. Defendant appeals raising eight issues of which only five merit discussion.

Defendant first argues that the arrest...

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