State v. Sayles

1. Homicide: first degree murder: corpus delicti: evidence. I. The accused struck John G. Runyan with his fist, but oné blow. This happened shortly before nine o’clock of May 7, 1914, and Runyan died, apparently from suffocation, about fifteen minutes after eleven 0 ’clock the same evening. Appellant eon-tends (1) that the evidence was not such as to warrant his conviction and (2) that there was no evidence of murder in the first degree; and, for this reason, the court *376erred in submitting to the jury the question as to whether he was guilty thereof.

Was death caused, or at least hastened, by a…