People v. Wolschon

After preliminary examination in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, an information was filed charging the defendant, Julius Wolschon, with murder with malice aforethought. CL 1948, § 750.316 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev §28.548). A tentative date for trial was set for October 28, 1964, and on September 4, 1964 a defense motion to reduce the charge from murder in the first degree to manslaughter was heard and denied in the recorder’s court. The case was then reset for trial on November 25, 1964, but for reasons not clearly indicated in the record, the defendant was brought before the court on…