THOMAS, Justice.
We will not soil the pages of our reports with the details of the sordid crime which these defendants confessed they committed.
The appellants question the sufficiency of the evidence to establish the corpus delicti as a basis for the introduction of the confessions. There is no need to reiterate the reasons for the rule that a "confession should not be received in evidence * * * unless there is at least some prima facie proof of the corpus...
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