PEOPLE v. ALEXANDER

Docket No. 26545.

76 Mich. App. 71 (1977)

255 N.W.2d 774

PEOPLE v. ALEXANDER

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, L. Brooks Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Robert C. Williams, Chief Appellate Counsel, and James L. McCarthy, Assistant Appellate Counsel, for plaintiff.

Charles Burke, for defendant.

Before: BRONSON, P.J., and M.F. CAVANAGH and C.J. BYRNS, JJ.


C.J. BYRNS, J.

Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder1 by a jury and now appeals by right.

The homicide occurred at Hazel Park Race Track, on June 13, 1975. Defendant went there to collect his pregnant wife, who had gone, unaccompanied, to watch the races. He spied her from a distance under the grandstand, where she was watching for the results of the last race, just as the victim, John Sweden, approached her and began...

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