State v. Inich

The defendant, Marco Inich, was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He has appealed from the judgment and an order denying him a new trial. The principal contention made in his behalf is that the court erred in denying him a new trial because the evidence, from any point of view, did not justify a finding of any higher grade of homicide than manslaughter. If this contention were maintainable, a new trial should have been ordered, for however clearly the evidence established the guilt of the defendant of an unlawful homicide, the jury…