People v. Hardiman

The defendant was convicted in the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit of murder in the second degree. To review such conviction he brings error. It is the claim of the people that on October 21, 1925, he shot and killed one Alberta Hatter. The proofs show that the parties were illicitly living together, and on the night of the killing had attended a party Where they quarreled because she refused to go home with him. After attempting violence and making some threats as to what he would do when she got home, the defendant left. Shortly thereafter, the deceased followed him. When she…