People v. Jennings
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, J.
The defendant has been convicted, with the aid of his confession, of the murder of Mary Elouise Carman, aged 14 years, who disappeared on June 4, 1970 and whose body is claimed to have been discovered on August 21,1970. As the body was decomposed and unrecognizable, the case falls into that class which one commentator has said “has proved troublesome ” because ‘ ‘ the body of the alleged victim was found bearing no signs of a fatal criminal assault ” (Richardson, Evidence [8th ed.], § 347, p. 316).
The defendant has submitted several grounds for reversal, but the chief contentions are two: (1)…
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