People v. Stevens

*94SHENK, J.

The defendant was charged by indictment with the murder of Mike Mucich in Los Angeles County on August 6, 1921. On a plea of not guilty, the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree without recommendation. The defendant has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

On the morning of August 7, 1921, the lifeless body of Mike Mucich was found lying on the south side of the road on the west approach of East Ninth Street to the Ninth-Street bridge in Los Angeles. He had come to his death by reason of one of two bullet wounds in his…