People v. Kaigler

Defendant was convicted by a jury in recorder’s court of the city of Detroit of the first-degree murder * of his wife, Clara Kaigler. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and, on denial by the trial court of a motion for a new trial, which included the court’s failure to grant defendant’s motion to suppress, is here on leave granted.

The facts surrounding the shooting are as follows: During the course of the evening of January 13,1959, defendant’s daughter had played the piano for her mother; apparently the mother had used a tape recorder which she had acquired the previous Christmas to…