JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 3-675A127.

344 N.E.2d 305 (1976)

Briddie JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Third District.

April 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Bechert, Public Defender, Fort Wayne, for defendant-appellant.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., John D. Shuman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.


GARRARD, Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction for first degree burglary. He asserts that the state failed to establish the corpus delicti so as to permit evidence of his confession and that independent of the confession, the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction.

The elements of first degree burglary are breaking and entering a dwelling house or other place of human habitation with the intent to commit a felony therein. IC 1971...

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