Walker

Defendant Jefferson D. Walker was convicted upon a jury’s verdicts of the first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187) of his wife, Susie, and of soliciting the murder (Pen. Code, § 653f) of one Tommy Olsen, a prospective witness against him at his murder trial. His appeal is from the judgment entered upon the jury’s verdicts.

We affirm the judgment for reasons as will hereinafter be stated.

No contention is made that the evidence placed before the jury was insufficient support for their guilty verdicts.

We set forth the trial’s evidence as it appears to be reasonably recited in Walker’s appellate briefs.

“In the early morning hours of June 7, 1981 officers Seymour, Scott, and Weakland of the Livermore Police Department received a dispatch call to go to 341 Helen Way in Livermore. When they arrived, appellant Jeff Walker met them at the front door and directed them to the master bedroom where his wife was injured and in need of medical attention. The officers went to the master bedroom where they found appellant’s wife, Susie Walker, lying on the bed with massive head injuries. Susie Walker was taken to the hospital by ambulance, underwent surgery, and was placed in the…