PEOPLE v. DERRICK SMITH

Docket No. 27739.

87 Mich. App. 584 (1978)

274 N.W.2d 844

PEOPLE v. DERRICK SMITH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 8, 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 Offender's Bureau, and Raymond P. Walsh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.

Before: ALLEN, P.J., and R.M. MAHER and J.E. TOWNSEND, JJ.


R.M. MAHER, J.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree in the perpetration of a robbery contrary to MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals as of right.

The killing of one Lawrence Newhouse occurred on August 3, 1974. Blanche Foster, a neighbor of the deceased, testified that she had known the deceased for 40 years and that he lived in a house on Steel Street in the City of Detroit across the alley from the...

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