Case Name: PEOPLE v. DOMINGUEZ
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1976-12-02
Citations: 72 Mich. App. 602
Docket Number: Docket No. 26368
Parties: PEOPLE v DOMINGUEZ
Judges: Before: R. B. Burns, P. J., and M. J. Kelly and S. S. Hughes, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 72
Pages: 602–606

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v DOMINGUEZ
Opinion of the Court
1. Appeal and Error — Record—Briefs—Reversible Error.
A trial court’s judgment should be affirmed on appeal where an examination of the record and briefs discloses no reversible error.
Dissent by M. J. Kelly, J.
2. Criminal Law — Instructions to Jury — Lesser Included Offenses — Evidence in Record — Appeal and Error.
It is reversible error for a trial judge to deny a defendant’s request for a charge to the jury on a lesser included offense where there is evidence in the record which would support a conviction of the lesser included offense.
3. Homicide — Second-Degree Murder — Manslaughter—Instructions to Jury — Prosecutor’s Option — New Trial — Notification to Trial Court.
A criminal case in which a defendant was convicted of second-degree murder should be remanded to the circuit court for the entry of a judgment of conviction of the lesser included offense of manslaughter and for resentencing where the trial judge in a homicide trial committed reversible error by refusing to give a jury instruction on manslaughter as requested by the defendant; however, if the prosecuting attorney is persuaded that the ends of justice would better be served by retrying the defendant, upon notiñcation to the trial court before resentencing, the trial court should vacate the judgment and conviction and grant a new trial on the charge of second-degree murder.
Appeal from Saginaw, Fred J. Borchard, J.
Sub mitted July 6, 1976, at Grand Rapids.
References for Points in Headnotes
4 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 493.
75 Am Jur 2d, Trial § 876.
40 Am Jur 2d, Homicide §§ 530, 534.
(Docket No. 26368.)
Decided December 2, 1976.
Leave to appeal applied for.
Arthur V. Dominguez was convicted of second-degree murder. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, E. Brady Denton, Prosecuting Attorney and Patrick M. Meter, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Robert H. Tiderington, 3rd, for defendant.
Before: R. B. Burns, P. J., and M. J. Kelly and S. S. Hughes, JJ.
Former circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment pursuant to Const Í963, art 6, § 23 as amended in 1968.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
On August 5, 1975, the defendant was convicted, by jury verdict, of murder in the second degree, contrary to MCLA 750.317; MSA 28.549.
On September 8, 1975, the defendant was sentenced to a prison term of 10 to 20 years.
An examination of the record and briefs discloses no reversible error.
Affirmed.