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PEOPLE v. ALLEN

No. 3 November Term 1973, Docket No. 54,341.

390 Mich. 383 (1973)

212 N.W.2d 21

PEOPLE v. ALLEN

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 21, 1973.

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.

State Appellate Defender Office (by Dennis H. Benson and Marshall Redman), for defendant on appeal.

PER CURIAM:

The question presented by this appeal is whether the corpus delicti of felony murder MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548 may be established without evidence independent of the accused person's confession of the essential element that distinguishes the offense of first-degree murder from second-degree murder.

For the reasons set forth in the dissenting opinion of Judge (now Justice) LEVIN in the Court of Appeals, 39 Mich.App. 483

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