Skinner v. Derr Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the question of territorial jurisdiction is to be decided by the court, as a defendant’s right to a jury does not extend beyond the factual issues that are relevant to the ultimate question of guilt or innocence under the relevant statute
• territorial jurisdiction existed to prosecute defendant for murder of Massachusetts victim found dead in Connecticut
• “[T]he question of where a murder occurred generally is not an element of the offense, but is merely an issue of territorial jurisdiction to be decided by the court.”
• “[W]e agree with the decisions holding that the question of where a murder occurred generally is not an element of the offense”
• \[t]he corpus delicti rule is a rule of evidence intended to protect an accused from conviction as a result of a baseless confession when no crime has in fact been committed\
• ‘‘[t]he corpus delicti rule is a rule of evi- dence’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).