People v. Coapman

Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in the circuit court of Oakland county. The information against him charged that on, to-wit, the 10th of May, 1947, at the township of Orion in said county, the defendant “feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder one Richard Edward Schweitzer.” Following the conviction, sentence was imposed in accordance with the statute. Defendant has appealed, claiming that the corpus delicti was not properly established, that the circuit court of Oakland county did not have jurisdiction, and that errors occurring in…