People v. Hall

On January 13,1967, decedent victim Albert Hoffman, being seventy-three years old that day, was brutally beaten to death in an alley near a bus stop in the Van Dyke-Gratiot area.

Two witnesses testified that they saw two men, one of whom they identified as the defendant, attack the old man and drag him into the alley where they robbed him of his change purse. The witnesses further testified that the assailants then rolled the old man over and went through his back pockets. As they went through his pockets, the assailant identified as the defendant was heard to say: “If * * * you move again…