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PEOPLE v. WILDER

Docket No. 77-1305.

82 Mich. App. 358 (1978)

266 N.W.2d 847

PEOPLE v. WILDER

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided April 4, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Michael R. Mueller, Director, Prosecutor's Repeat Offenders Bureau, and Raymond P. Walsh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.

Before: BEASLEY, P.J., and BASHARA and D.C. RILEY, JJ.

BASHARA, J.

Defendant appeals his conviction by a jury of first-degree murder1 and armed robbery.2 The prosecution sought to establish that defendant and his codefendant, Lee Chester Butts, killed the victim during the course of an armed robbery.

While instructing the jury, the trial court referred to the weapon used to kill the victim as the "murder weapon". Defendant urges that such reference effectively...

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