48 Ala. App. 261 - Dubose v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““In a murder prosecution, proof of the corpus delicti includes proof of the victim’s death and proof that death was caused by some person’s criminal agency. Moss v. State, 32 Ala.App. 250 , 25 So.2d 700 , certiorari denied 247 Ala. 595 , 25 So.2d 703 ; Shelton v. State, 217 Ala. 465 , 117 So. 8 ; Ducett v. State, 186 Ala. 324 , 65 So. 351 ; Pearce v. State, 14 Ala. App. 120 , 72 So. 213 . It is not required that the corpus delicti be proved by direct evidence; it may be proved by circumstantial evidence as well. Phillips v. State, 248 Ala. 510, 28 So.2d 542 ; Rowe v. State, 243 Ala. 618 , 11 So.2d 749 ; McDowell v. State, 238 Ala. 101 , 189 So. 183 ; Inman v. State, 23 Ala.App. 484 , 127 So. 262 . The requirement that, in a murder prosecution, the State must show not only the fact of the victim’s death, but also that death was caused by the criminal agency of another, is satisfied when it appears that death was not the result of accident or natural causes, or of suicide. Shelton v. State, supra.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jennings v. State · Jennings v. State