PEOPLE v. BAILEY

Docket No. 152415.

207 Mich. App. 8 (1994)

523 N.W.2d 798

PEOPLE v. BAILEY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 19, 1994, at 9:25 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Janet A. Napp, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Joan Ellerbusch Morgan, for the defendant on appeal.

Before: SHEPHERD, P.J., and TAYLOR and R.D. GOTHAM, JJ.


TAYLOR, J.

Defendant appeals as of right his conviction of voluntary manslaughter, MCL 750.321; MSA 28.553. We reverse.

Defendant, armed with a baseball bat, approached Charles Peoples and struck him with the bat two or three times. Peoples died. Defendant testified that he was "out to hurt" Peoples when he struck him with the bat. Peoples died as a result of blunt-force injuries, the majority of which were on...

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