Bruner v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was on August 25, 1943, charged with murder in the first degree. Upon the trial he was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. To review the judgment he prosecutes this writ of error.

The thirty-five assignments of error may, for our purposes, be classified: 1. Admission of defendant’s statement of August 22, 1943. 2. Proof of the corpus delicti. 3. Admission of defendant’s statement of September 20, 1943. 4. The giving and refusing of instructions.

The evidence in this case is rather voluminous, but…