STATE v. HICKS


495 A.2d 765 (1985)

STATE of Maine v. James HICKS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 9, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Charles K. Leadbetter (orally), Fernand R. LaRochelle, Anita M. St. Onge, Rae Ann French, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for the state.

Stern, Goldsmith & Billings by J. Hilary Billings (orally), Bangor, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

There was no evidence whatsoever of a victim's body, of a weapon or of bloodstains in this criminal homicide case. Nevertheless, upon evidence wholly circumstantial the Defendant, James Hicks, was convicted by a Penobscot County jury of criminal homicide in the fourth degree, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 204 (Pamph.1976).

In appealing from his conviction, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction. Furthermore...

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