State v. Cobo

EPHRAIM HANSON, Justice.

The information upon which the defendant, Pete Cobo, was tried for murder charged that on May 18, 1933, at Juab county, Utah, the defendant willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought by some means unknown, instruments and weapons, struck one Frank G. McIntyre upon the head and face, thereby causing his death. A jury found the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Defendant on this appeal contends that the state failed to prove the corpus delicti; that there is no substantial evidence that the death of the deceased was caused by blows…