PEOPLE v. JOHN WILLIAMS

Docket No. 53160.

129 Mich. App. 362 (1983)

341 N.W.2d 143

PEOPLE v. JOHN WILLIAMS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, George B. Mullison, Prosecuting Attorney, and Thomas J. Rasdale, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender (by Mardi Crawford), for defendant on appeal.

Before: R.M. MAHER, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and P.J. MARUTIAK, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548, and was sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison. He now appeals by leave granted.

On April 15, 1978, Frances Brattler, a 79-year-old woman, was found dead in her home in Bay City. Thinking that she had died of natural causes, Ms. Brattler's son-in-law, who had discovered the body, arranged to have the body taken to a funeral home. While preparing the body...

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