People v. Barreto

J. — Defendant was charged with the murder of his wife. A jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser included offense. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for new trial, 1 contending that his confessions were inadmissible because made involuntarily and in violation of his right to counsel, and, further, that evidence used against him was obtained as the result of illegal searches. The body of the victim was never found and there were no eyewitnesses to the killing. Proof of the corpus delicti was by circumstantial evidence.

While no…