State v. Cohen

Because I am convinced that the action of the trial justice in denying in part the defendant’s motion for the direction of a verdict of acquittal constituted reversible error, I am constrained to' dissent from the majority opinion in this case and to state my reasons for so doing.

The controlling issue in this case was whether the death of the deceased was induced through a criminal agency for, if on the evidence adduced a jury would be warranted in finding the corpus delicti proved beyond a reasonable doubt, such evidence would submit to no other reasonable hypothesis but that th.e crime was…