People v. Coker

The defendant was charged by the district attorney of Butte County with the crime of murder alleged to have been committed on the third day of August in the county of Butte. The trial resulted in a conviction of manslaughter. The defendant’s motion for a new trial having been denied, this appeal is prosecuted from the order denying the defendant’s motion and from the judgment of conviction. The points relied upon for a reversal are that the corpus delicti was not established either by circumstantial or direct evidence so as to admit of the statements or confession of the defendant and also…