Honomu Sugar Co. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the corpus delicti rule to reverse the conviction of a defendant who confessed to forcing his three-year-old daughter to fondle his penis
• reinstating the trial court's order dismissing the charge because the State failed to establish corpus delicti independent of the defendant's confession
• \This court has infrequently discussed under what conditions it should disregard the doctrine of stare decisis and overturn an established rule of law.\
• “This court has infrequently discussed under what conditions it should disregard the doctrine of stare decisis and overturn an established rule of law.”
• “[C]orpus delecti is not established when independent evidence supports reasonable and logical inferences of both criminal agency and noncriminal cause.” (emphasis omitted and internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “It is sufficient if the independent evidence prima facie establishes the corpus delicti”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).