State v. Krajger

The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder under § 53a-54 of the General Statutes. He has moved to dismiss the indictment claiming that there is insufficient cause to continue the prosecution because the report of the medical examiner and the autopsy performed on the alleged victim failed to set forth a cause of death so as to establish that a homicide took place. It appears that the defendant’s argument is that without a cause of death listed in the autopsy report, the corpus delicti, an essential element of the crime of murder, cannot he proved.

That is not the law in Connecticut.…