Case ID: mich-app_33/html/0250-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. FRAZIER
    Criminal Law — Appeal and Error — Instructions to Jury — Preserving Question.
    An appellate court will not, except to prevent a miscarriage of justice, hear objections for the first time to the instructions to the jury where the criminal defendant had the opportunity to object to the instructions but made no objections.
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court for the City of Detroit, Henry Heading, J.
    Submitted Division 1 March 31, 1971, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 8926.)
    Decided April 28, 1971.
    Bennie Arthur Frazier was convicted of manslaughter. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cabalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Thomas P. Smith, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Kenneth A. Webb, for defendant on appeal.
    Before: J. H. Gillis, P. J., and Fitzgerald and T. M. Burns, JJ.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 891.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant was charged with second-degree murder, MCLA § 750.317, (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.549). In a jury trial he was convicted of manslaughter, MCLA § 750.321 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.553).

The two issues raised on appeal concern the court’s instructions to the jury. These issues are now raised for the first time. Although the opportunity to object to the instructions was given below, no objection was made by the defense. Those objections may not be raised now unless done to prevent a miscarriage of justice. People v. Fry (1970), 27 Mich App 169; People v. Bay Clifton Smith (1969), 20 Mich App 243, 245; People v. Omell (1968), 15 Mich App 154; People v. Dexter (1967), 6 Mich App 247; People v. Rimson (1966), 3 Mich App 713; People v. Willis (1965), 1 Mich App 428.

The record discloses no miscarriage of justice, and the instructions read as a whole fairly stated to the jury the law governing this case. People v. Charles Jackson (1970), 21 Mich App 132; People v. Fred W. Thomas (1967), 7 Mich App 519.

Affirmed.