People v. Cartwright

Defendant William Cartwright, along with a codefendant, Lawrence Gulley, was tried and convicted by a jury on July 19, 1967, of breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit larceny. MCLA § 750.110 (Stat Ann 1970 Cum Supp § 28.305). The facts relevant to his four assignments of error are summarized as follows:

Around 4:30 in the afternoon of January 16, 1967, Mrs. Ethel Paige was standing near the front window of her house on Field Street in Detroit when she saw two Negro men walk up the stairs to the porch of a house across the street, force the door, and enter. She…