Clouser v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Commissioner.

The appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years upon conviction of the offense of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree. He asserts three grounds for reversal of the judgment: (1) The evidence did not establish the corpus delicti, (2) assuming proof of the corpus delicti, the evidence was not sufficient to prove that appellant committed the crime, and (3) the Commonwealth’s Attorney made *695improper remarks in the closing argument prejudicial to appellant.

This homicide occurred in a room in which only the deceased, the appellant, and one other person were…