People v. Langford

Defendant was convicted by the trial court, after proper waiver of jury trial, on November 7, 1975, of two counts of first-degree murder, MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. The record reveals that defendant was found guilty of executing Brenda Freeman and her seven-year-old son Johnny. The homicides were committed as part of an insurance fraud scheme in which defendant herein was a hit man in this murder which the trial court found: "as the most brutal, planned, heartless, savage killings in the county’s history”. Following conviction defendant’s motion for a new trial, alleging that his confession…