McCall v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. His motion for a new trial was overruled. From this ruling and the conviction and sentence he appeals urging three matters as error.

Appellant complains that the state did not prove the corpus delicti in that it failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the causal connection between the wound inflicted by the defendant and the deceased’s death.

It is true that no direct evidence of the causal connection between the wound inflicted and death was presented. There was, however, much…