PEOPLE v. MORRIS

Docket No. 78-2731.

92 Mich. App. 747 (1979)

285 N.W.2d 446

PEOPLE v. MORRIS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert L. Kaczmarek, Prosecuting Attorney, and Patrick M. Meter, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Joseph Samuel Scorsone, for defendant on appeal.

Before: M.F. CAVANAGH, P.J., and BASHARA and D.E. HOLBROOK, JR., JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant was tried by jury for the offense of first-degree murder. MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548. She was convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals by right, raising six issues, three of which merit comment and require reversal for a new trial.

Reversible error was committed when the trial court instructed the jury prior to their deliberations on the definition of legal insanity and the corresponding definition of legal sanity. The erroneous...

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