PEOPLE v. ALLEN

Docket No. 10157.

39 Mich. App. 483 (1972)

197 N.W.2d 874

PEOPLE v. ALLEN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Thomas M. Khalil, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Carl Ziemba, for defendant on appeal.

Before: LEVIN, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and J.H. GILLIS, JJ.


Leave to appeal granted, 388 Mich. 810.

R.B. BURNS, J.

Defendant was convicted of a felony murder. Killing a person while perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate a robbery constitutes first-degree murder in this state.1

Defendant's first assigned error involves analysis of one of criminal law's most fundamental principles:

"An unsupported confession should not be received as sufficient evidence of the corpus...

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