People v. Herbert Brown

These are appeals of right by defendants from jury convictions of first-degree felony murder, MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. The cases have been joined here for review.

We have examined the many assignments of error and those which we believe control may thus be characterized:

To what extent if any did the rulings of the trial judge as to the people’s examination of their witness Larry Kent offend against the holding in People v Thomas, 359 Mich 251 (1960)?

In substance Thomas, supra, held that refreshing the recollection of a witness by reference to a prior statement cannot by extension become an…