The PEOPLE v. Perfecto

Defendant, Enacio Perfecto, was found guilty of forcible rape in a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in the penitentiary. He brings the record here for review alleging, as the sole error, that proof of the corpus delicti was insufficient in that it consisted solely of his uncorroborated extrajudicial admissions and confessions.

The rule is that an uncorroborated confession is insufficient to convict, but the corpus delicti is not required to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt exclusively by evidence aliunde the confession or admissions of…