Legal Opinion
State v. Hicks
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 9, 1985PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
There was no evidence whatsoever of a victim’s body, of a weapon or of bloodstains in this criminal homicide case. Nevertheless, upon evidence wholly circumstantial the Defendant, James Hicks, was convicted by a Penobscot County jury of criminal homicide in the fourth degree, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 204 (Pamph.1976).
In appealing from his conviction, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction. Furthermore, he argues that the Superior Court erred in: (1) refusing to instruct the jury on criminal homicide in the fifth degree; (2) entering a…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Epperly v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BurnsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
- State v. CrockerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
- People v. MansonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1977
- People v. StanfieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
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