People v. Statkiewicz

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting and killing Anthony Wasielewski on March 28,1927, sentenced to life imprisonment, and brings error.

Defendant was 27 years of age and was born in Detroit. His sister Anna was married to Charles "Wasielewski, brother of Anthony. About midnight the four returned from a neighbor’s house to the home of Charles and Anna. Defendant had been drinking. He went to bed. A controversy arose between him and Charles, in the course of which Charles ordered defendant out of the house. Charles and Anna testified that this order came because…