People v. Moran

Opinion

TAYLOR, P. J.

Defendant, W. J. Moran, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of first degree murder of C. Baker and not guilty of the murder of T. Shull. He raises a question of first impression as to the propriety of the trial court’s admission of a video tape of the preliminary hearing testimony of the main prosecution witness. He also asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting into evidence photographs and a motion picture of the exhumation of the bodies; erred in its accomplice instructions, in the admission of the…