People v. Defer

The appellants were convicted of murder of the first degree and sentenced on the jury’s recommendation to life imprisonment. No appeal was taken from the judgments of conviction. A motion was made in each ease to correct the record “to make the clerk’s minutes . . . speak the truth,” and from orders denying such motions these appeals were taken. Appellants sought such correction so that the record would affirmatively show that the verdicts *733had not been recorded before the jury was discharged. The case will be treated as if the record in the trial court had been so corrected, for the record on…