UNITED STATES v. BEGAY

No. 254-70.

441 F.2d 1136 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Albert Dean BEGAY, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oreste L. Puccini, Jr., Albuquerque, N. M., for defendant-appellant.

John A. Babington, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Victor R. Ortega, U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., with him on the brief) for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, BREITENSTEIN and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Begay, a Navajo Indian, appeals from a judgment of conviction for burglary within Indian country in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1153 contending the trial court erred in the admission of his written confession into evidence and that the evidence is insufficient to support conviction because the confession is corroborated only by independent evidence of the corpus delicti. The latter contention is self-defeating...

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