People v. Bennett

Opinion

ELKINGTON, J.

By a jury’s verdicts defendant Bennett was convicted of first degree murder, and found to have been armed with a deadly weapon and to have used a firearm in the commission of the offense. He appeals from the judgment which was thereafter entered on the verdicts. Four contentions of error are made.

Bennett made no denial of the commission of the act of homicide; his defense was self-defense and “diminished capacity” which he describes as “his state of mind at the time.” The jury’s verdicts were beyond any doubt supported by substantial evidence according to the standards of…