State v. Gregory

Defendant was charged with first-degree murder. Upon trial of the charge, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. From judgment and sentence entered on the verdict, defendant appeals.

Appellant makes some ten assignments of error, which, however, raise but three questions meriting discussion. At the outset, we may say that we have considered all the assignments and find them without substance, except in so far as they relate to these questions: (1) whether the corpus delicti was sufficiently established by the state’s evidence to justify submission of the case to…