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PEOPLE v. MUSSER

Docket Nos. 15044, 15529.

53 Mich. App. 683 (1974)

219 N.W.2d 781

PEOPLE v. MUSSER PEOPLE v. HUMBEL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 24, 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, and Aloysius J. Lynch, Special Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for the people.

Lawrence R. Greene, for defendant Musser on appeal.

Roger L. Wotila, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant Humbel on appeal.

Before: HOLBROOK, P.J., and ALLEN and VAN VALKENBURG, JJ.

VAN VALKENBURG, J.

Defendants were tried jointly before a jury, were found guilty of murder in the first degree, MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548, and were sentenced to life imprisonment. Both defendants appeal as of right.

While the trial was extensive, taking some 15 days and resulting in almost 2300 pages of transcript, no useful purpose would be served by here detailing the evidence. The ultimate question confronting the jury was not so much the fact of the brutal...

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