PEOPLE v. CORBETT

Docket No. 77-1833.

97 Mich. App. 438 (1980)

296 N.W.2d 64

PEOPLE v. CORBETT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Edward Reilly Wilson, Principal Attorney, Appeals, and Frank J. Bernacki, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Alan C. Helmkamp, for defendant on appeal.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and M.F. CAVANAGH and P.C. ELLIOTT, JJ.


P.C. ELLIOTT, J.

Defendant was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm and discuss two issues raised in his appeal:

I. The court's disclosure to the jury that he had found the defendant's statement to be voluntary; and

II. The court's failure to include instruction comparable to paragraphs (6) and (7) of the proposed Michigan Criminal Jury Instruction (CJI) 3:1:10 when instructing on circumstantial evidence....

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