STATE v. CASAUS

No. 7288.

386 P.2d 246 (1963)

73 N.M. 152

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul CASAUS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

October 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Angel, Albuquerque, for appellant.

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., Shirley C. Zabel, Joel M. Carson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for appellee.


CARMODY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of second degree murder.

Appellant alleges error on several different grounds. These consist of a claimed lack of sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction; that the case should have been dismissed because the only direct evidence was an extrajudicial confession, and that the state was bound by exculpatory statements contained therein relating to self-defense...

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