People v. Childs

Defendant, Mathew Childs, was convicted in a nonjury trial of the crime of felonious assault * on January 26,1967, in recorder’s court and was sentenced on March 6, 1967 to a term of 3-1/2 to 4 years.

The record on appeal discloses the following pertinent facts: Between 7 and 8 p.m., on the evening of October 8,1966, while he was crossing Oregon street in the city of Detroit to talk to Clarence Houze, complainant George Edmondson was hit by 3 “bullets” (shotgun pellets). According to Edmondson, Houze was sitting in his car. When Edmondson realized that he had been shot, he jumped into Houze’s…