People v. McCoy

Defendant was charged with first-degree murder 1 in the killing of one James McCraw. He was convicted upon a jury verdict of second-degree murder 2 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

At the trial it appeared that on April 18,1968, the defendant decided to get revenge upon the deceased, James McCraw, for a brutal beating he had suffered at the hands of McCraw and three other men two years earlier. When he heard McCraw, who lived downstairs, leaving to go to the store, he went to his car, got a shotgun, and waited in the bushes for McCraw to return. Later, as McCraw approached the bushes,…