State v. Ricks

PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to forty-five years’ imprisonment. His two points contend that (1) “the State had not established a corpus delicti in its failure to prove the cause of death of the alleged victim”, and (2) “[t]he trial court erred in overruling Defendant’s motion for mistrial and not granting Defendant’s motion that the jury be instructed to disregard the testimony of the coroner that wounds went through vital organs because the coroner was not a medical expert, did not base his opinion on his own examination of the body, and based…