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PEOPLE v. BATTLE

Docket No. 24730.

71 Mich. App. 136 (1976)

246 N.W.2d 389

PEOPLE v. BATTLE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 7, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Patricia J. Boyle, Principal Attorney, Research, Training and Appeals, and Samuel C. Damren, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and T.M. BURNS and W. VAN VALKENBURG, JJ.

Leave to appeal denied, 399 Mich. 808.

J.H. GILLIS, P.J.

A jury convicted the defendant of two counts of first-degree murder. MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. Defendant was given two concurrent life sentences and appeals.

On May 31, 1974, the bodies of Shelly Frazier (Shelly) and Willie Freeman Caruthers (Freeman) were found in a Monroe County ditch. The bodies had various bindings about the head and neck, and each victim had been shot through the head. The...

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