State v. Lung

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the trial court's admission of the defendant's confession before the State established the corpus delicti because the \facts and circumstances which established the corpus delicti were overwhelming\
• requiring independent proof to establish “prima facie” corpus de-licti
• in second degree homicide case, corpus delicti requires only “fact of death and ... a causal connection between the death and a criminal agency, but the corpus delicti does not require proof of a causal relation between the death and the accused”
• evidence of coat with bullet hole and bloodstains
• reviewing trial court's corpus delicti ruling admitting a confession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).