Wright v. People

Defendant below was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death. His assignments of error are grouped under eight points.

The first assignment is that the verdict is contrary to the evidence in that there is no disclosure of malice, premeditation or deliberation; the second, that the corpus delicti was not proven by competent evidence; the sixth that there was error in instructing on first degree murder because there was no evidence to justify s.uch instruction, and the seventh that there was error in instructing on second degree murder because there was no…