PEOPLE v.
Filed 8/12/10
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
THE PEOPLE, )
)
Plaintiff and Respondent, )
) S081148
v. )
)
MARTIN CARL JENNINGS, )
) San Bernardino County
Defendant and Appellant. ) Super. Ct. No. FVI-04195
__________________________________ )
Story continued from part III…..
The detectives then resumed questioning the
two suspects concerning the shovel incident.
Defendant finally admitted that a female neighbor, Cora Grein, had been in the house while Michelle was out with
Art, Sr. At this time, one of the
detectives took Michelle outside again.
In her absence, defendant admitted that Arthur saw him kissing Grein. Defendant
claimed that Grein became angry and hit Arthur with
the shovel in order to keep Arthur from telling her husband. Defendant claimed that he kicked Grein out of the trailer and tried to help Arthur by
cleaning the wound and giving him some drugs, but that Arthur died within an
hour.
Under further questioning, however,
defendant's story changed again, and he finally confessed that he hit Arthur
with the shovel after Arthur saw him kissing Grein
and admitted that he then believed he â€
| Description | A San Bernardino County jury found defendant Martin Carl Jennings guilty of the first degree murder of his five-year-old son, Arthur Jennings. (Pen. Code, § 187.)[1] The jury further found true the special circumstance that the murder was intentional and involved the infliction of torture (§ 190.2, subd (a)(18)), but found not true the special circumstance that defendant intentionally killed Arthur by the administration of poison (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(19)). Following the penalty phase of the trial, the jury returned a verdict of death. After denying defendant's motion for a new trial and his application for modification of the judgment (§ 190.4, subd. (e)), the trial court sentenced defendant to death. This appeal is automatic. (§ 1239, subd. (b).) We affirm the judgment in its entirety. |
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