State v. Atkinson

WERNICK, Justice.

Indicted on November 1, 1972 for having committed the crime of breaking, entering and larceny in violation of 17 M.R.S.A. § 2103, defendant, Paul E. Atkinson, after a trial by jury in the Superior Court (Lincoln County) was, on November 28, 1972, found guilty as charged.

Defendant’s appeal from the judgment of conviction raises three issues for decision: (1) whether the presiding Justice erred in ruling that the “corpus delicti” had been sufficiently established to authorize the evidentiary admissibility of extrajudicial admissions of the defendant; (2) whether the presiding…