State v. Stimmel

KAROHL, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine on the charge of driving while intoxicated. Section 577.010 RSMo 1986. On appeal defendant contends the trial court erred in admitting extrajudicial statements made by the defendant at the time of his arrest because the state failed to meet its independent burden of establishing corpus delicti. We affirm.

At trial Trooper R.S. Johnson testified that on January 19, 1989, at approximately 11:36 p.m. he received a call to respond to the site of a one vehicle accident on westbound Interstate 44. When he arrived at the scene,…