State v. Keadle
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of second degree murder and his sentence of imprisonment for a term of seventy-one years to life, holding that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to establish the corpus delicti of homicide beyond a reasonable doubt.
Defendant, the last person known to have seen Tyler Thomas alive, was charged with first-degree murder in relation to Thomas' disappearance. After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of second degree murder. As his sole point on appeal, Defendant argued that the evidence was insufficient to establish the corpus delicti of homicide. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that there was no merit to Defendant's assigned error.
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