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STATE v. DAVIS

374 A.2d 322 (1977)

STATE of Maine v. Walter E. DAVIS, Jr.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

June 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Goranites, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for plaintiff.

Paul W. McElhinney, Sanford, David L. Brooks, North Berwick, Gerald C. Nason, Biddeford, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.

POMEROY, Justice.

A York County jury, after a trial, has declared that beyond a reasonable doubt Walter E. Davis, Jr., killed Troy Belanger under such circumstances as to make such killing punishable as murder. Former 17 M.R.S.A. § 2651. He now appeals,1 claiming as error that certain admissions against his interest and/or confessions were admitted into evidence at a time when the corpus delicti had not been established.

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