People v. Drielick

A jury convicted defendant of first-degree murder, MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548. He was sentenced and he appeals. The first five issues raised and briefed on appeal arise from the admission, over objection, of a recorded telephone conversation between defendant and the wife of the victim.

Prior to the killing, defendant had been on intimate terms with Nancy McNeil, the estranged wife of the victim. At the time of the homicide, she was pregnant by defendant. Mrs. McNeil testified that defendant came to her apartment November 20, 1972 and told her that he had killed her husband with a gun that…