People v. Townes

The defendant was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, MCLA 750.317; MSA 28.549, sentenced to a prison term of 8 to 20 years and appeals as of right.

Although some of the facts are in conflict, it appears that they may be reasonably summarized in the following manner. The defendant harbored the ostensible idea that one Odom McMillion, an *385employee of Jessee Burnett, the deceased, had been seeing his wife, from whom he had been separated for about three years. On August 2, 1971, defendant, while travelling to see a relative with his wife and two children, stopped at the business where…