Bega v. State

KANNER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Eugenio Coto Bega, was charged with murder in the second degree, found guilty of that offense, and sentenced to the minimum statutory period of twenty years in the state prison, from which judgment and sentence he has appealed.

Two points emerge from the appeal, (1) whether the evidence of the state was sufficient to support a finding that the appellant was guilty of murder in the second degree, and (2) whether or not the court erred in failing to rule upon the introduction of a knife offered into evidence by the state.

As to point one, the principal argument of…