People v. Lucich

Defendant was charged with the crime of murder. He was tried before a jury which returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. He appeals from the judgment and from the order-denying his motion for a new trial.

There is not, and could not well be, upon the record before us, any claim that the evidence adduced at the trial was insufficient to support the verdict, and it will, therefore, be unnecessary to state the evidence at length.

The deceased, one M. G. Sturtevant, was jointly indicted with a number of others for conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition…