People v. Herrell

Defendant Glen Dee Herrell was tried and convicted by a jury in the recorder’s court, traffic and ordinance division, for the city of Detroit for the crime of leaving the scene of a fatal accident, contrary to CLS 1961, § 257.617 (Stat Ann 1960 Rev § 9.2317). The accident occurred on February 16, 1963.

Defendant appeals alleging the trial court committed reversible error in admitting into evidence, over objection, a photograph entitled the people’s exhibit 7.

During the course of the trial a Detroit police officer testified that exhibit 7 was a photograph that he had taken of the defendant’s…