Case Name: PEOPLE v. BRYANT
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1970-06-02
Citations: 24 Mich. App. 296
Docket Number: Docket No. 7,494
Parties: PEOPLE v. BRYANT
Judges: Before: V. J. Brennan, P. J., and McGregor and Ager, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 24
Pages: 296–297

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. BRYANT
Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Joseph E. Maher, J.
Submitted Division 1 May 5, 1970, at Detroit.
(Docket No. 7,494.)
Decided June 2, 1970.
Robert Bryant was convicted of second-degree murder. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Thomas R. Lewis, Assistant Prosecuting’ Attorney, for the people.
M. Hector Cisneros, for defendant on appeal.
Before: V. J. Brennan, P. J., and McGregor and Ager, JJ.
Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The defendant, Robert Bryant, was tried by a jury in the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit and convicted of second-degree murder. MCLA § 750.317 (Stat Ann §28.549). He appeals as of right.
The defendant shot and killed one Uluce Hudgins in an incident arising out of an argument between Hudgins and his wife in the hallway of her apartment building on July 14, 1968. The defendant in terceded and an argument ensued. Hudgins was shot in the head and died soon afterward. Claiming both accident and self-defense, the defendant testified on his own behalf.
The sole issue on appeal is. whether the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence. After examining the record, we find that there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury, People v. Duwn, (1925), 233 Mich 185; People v. Macard (1888), 73 Mich 15, and that there was sufficient evidence, if believed, to establish the elements of the crime. People v. Spann, (1966), 3 Mich App 444; People v. Eaves (1966), 4 Mich App 457; People v. Williams (1968), 11 Mich App 62.
Affirmed.