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PEOPLE v. HUNTER

Calendar No. 45, Docket No. 49,771.

370 Mich. 262 (1963)

121 N.W.2d 442

PEOPLE v. HUNTER.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 9, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, and Samuel J. Torina, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Grossman, Hyman & Grossman (Carl Levin, of counsel), for defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Rolland R. O'Hare and Erwin Ellmann (Fay A. O'Hare, of counsel), for American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.

SOURIS, J.

Defendant appeals from his jury conviction of murder in the first degree. His principal claim of reversible error is that the trial judge's charge to the jury improperly deprived him of jury consideration of his defense of self-defense.

Defendant Hunter was tried together with a male codefendant, James Sacchetti, and defendant Evelyn Lari, Hunter's girl friend, for the murder of Elmer Jones. Hunter claimed...

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