People v. Ogg

Defendant was convicted of murdering his wife on Christmas Day, 1956. The jury fixed the offense as murder in the second degree. The jury found the charge that defendant had suffered a prior felony conviction for forgery to be true. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied and he was sentenced to the state prison. He has appealed from the judgment of conviction.

In seeking a reversal defendant contends (1) that the corpus delicti was not sufficiently established to warrant the introduction of his extrajudicial statements; (2) that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction of…