People v. Younger

Defendant was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder for killing his wife. 2 The homicide occurred at about 3 o’clock one morning when defendant returned home unexpectedly and found his wife, a female neighbor and his wife’s male employer in defendant’s home having a drink. It was defendant’s claim at trial, and it is his claim on appeal, that the presence of the male in his home at that hour was the culminating act of provocation, preceded by many prior acts of infidelity by his wife and broken promises of reformation, that precipitated his killing his wife in an act of passion, thereby…