People v. Carter

I

THE CRIME.

December .1, 1967 was the last day in the life of Emile Osbeck, a 67-year-old self-employed interior decorator. He spent the morning working at his trade, ate a hearty lunch with his wife, and then went to a paint store where he purchased three gallons and four quarts of paint. He first carried the gallon cans, weighing approximately 15 pounds each, out of the store and then returned for the four *402quarts. He was last seen alive at 12:50 p.m. carrying them out of the store.

Between 1 jOO and 1:15 p.m., there was a robbery of a Grand Rapids bank. As the three robbers left the bank, the…