[Download] "State Missouri v. Theoplus E. Hill" by Missouri Court of Appeals Kansas City District # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. Theoplus E. Hill
- Author : Missouri Court of Appeals Kansas City District
- Release Date : January 06, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
Description
Defendant was found guilty by a jury of stealing a motor vehicle. He was sentenced by the court to four years confinement in the Department of Corrections in view of the jury's inability to agree upon his punishment. By a timely appeal defendant seeks to set aside his conviction and sentence on two grounds: (1) the trial court erred in admitting his extra-judicial oral confession prior to proof by the state of the corpus delicti of the crime; and (2) the state failed to meet its burden of proof because of a material and prejudicial variance between the information and the proof adduced at trial regarding ownership of the motor vehicle which defendant was charged with stealing. The nature of defendant's first point dictates a need for setting forth the facts in their correct trial sequence. With this admonition in mind, the following facts are sequentially set forth.