Legal Opinion
Hughes v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided November 18, 1981No. 631980PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Justice:
This is an appeal by Robert D. Hughes (defendant) who was sentenced by the Superior Court after a jury had found him guilty of Murder in the First Degree, 11 Del.C. § 636(a)(1).1
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The State’s case is based on circumstantial evidence and, in their respective briefs, the parties have examined in detail the evidence and the manner in which it was used by counsel in argument to the jury. For that reason, we state the facts at more length than usual.
About 6:35 a. m. on August 31, 1976, Hughes made a telephone call to the Milford Police Department and said, in effect, that he had…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by168 opinions
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