People v. Kangas

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Wexford county circuit court of a charge of manslaughter. Motion for new trial was denied, and application for leave to appeal was granted by this Court.

Defendant was originally charged with second-degree murder. A motion to dismiss the murder charge was made, and, at the conclusion of the people’s proofs, the trial judge granted the motion.

The charge grew out of the following factual situation :

On December 18, 1959, the defendant drove to the home of his estranged wife on the outskirts of Cadillac in a ear belonging to a woman friend. It was around 5…