Schlegel v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with murder in the second degree under Acts 1905, ch. 169, §350, p. 584, being §10-3404, Burns’ 1956 Replacement, tried by jury, convicted as charged and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Indiana State Prison.

Three questions are here presented for our consideration.

First: Appellant asserts that there is no evidence to establish the corpus delicti.

“Proof of the ‘corpus delicti’ means proof that the specific crime charged has actually been committed by someone.” Parker v. State (1950), 228 Ind. 1, 6, 88 N. E. 2d 556, 89 N. E. 2d 442; Dennis v. State…