California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Murphy v. Superior Court In and For City and County of San Francisco, 10 Cal.Rptr. 176, 188 Cal.App.2d 185 (Cal. App. 1961):
It is also pointed out that the extra-judicial statements of an accused cannot be considered where there is no showing whatever that the victim incurred his injury by the act of a criminal agency sufficient to constitute a prima facie corpus delicti. See In re Flodstrom, 134 Cal.App.2d 871, 874-875, 277 P.2d 101 and People v. Schuber, supra. As pointed out in People v. Schuber, supra, 71 Cal.App.2d at page 777, 163 P.2d 498, and as should have been abundantly
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