Your “no body “ murder prosecution would fail because there
Posted on: June 14, 2024 at 12:49:01 CT
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would be no “corpus delecti” or proof of one of the elements of a crime i.e. death.
However, if someone chased you around the woods firing shots at you, you, as the sole witness, could establish all the elements of the crime (the corpus) by saying that the defendant, by using means likely to cause serious bodily injury (firearm) placed you in immediate fear of serious bodily harm.
If you are believed, a conviction could follow, with no weapon, no found bullets, no video, no confession, no cops, because you, by yourself, have established all of the elements (corpus) of the crime.
Edited by Lovely Rita at 12:49:34 on 06/14/24