People v. Pearson

These are appeals of right from convictions by a jury of first-degree murder. The charges were laid under our so-called felony-murder statute. MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. The statute by its terms makes any homicide murder in the first degree when committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate certain specified felonies.

The felony here involved is robbery.

Defendants set forth six assignments of error. To *369understand them a skeletal fact recitation is necessary. When we use the term facts, we include claims of fact supported by sufficient evidence to make that claim of fact jury…