People v. Lundberg

Having waived trial by jury, defendant was tried and convicted by the circuit court in Schoolcraft county of the first-degree murder of a 22-year-old woman schoolteacher. On leave granted by this Court, defendant appeals, claiming that his court-appointed counsel was incompetent and unfaithful ; that the trial court was without jurisdiction to try him because the homicide occurred in the adjoining county; and that the court committed prejudicial error by receiving evidence of unrelated crimes, hearsay testimony, and testimony of defendant’s confessional statements made to the police which he…