State v. Hill

SOMERVILLE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of stealing a motor vehicle. He was sentenced by the court to four years confinement in the Department of Corrections in view of the jury’s inability to agree upon his punishment.

By a timely appeal defendant seeks to set aside his conviction and sentence on two grounds: (1) the trial court erred in admitting his extrajudicial oral confession prior to proof by the state of the corpus delicti of the crime; and (2) the state failed to meet its burden of proof because of a material and prejudicial variance between the information…