State v. Casaus

CARMODY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of second degree murder.

Appellant alleges error on several different grounds. These consist of a claimed lack of sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction; that the case should have been dismissed because the only direct evidence was an extrajudicial confession, and that the state was hound by exculpatory statements contained therein relating to self-defense; that the state failed to prove the corpus delicti; and, lastly, that a new trial should have been granted because of certain statements made by the prosecutor in his closing argument.