Dеfendant (Appellant) was charged by indictment in two counts for murder and felony murder, Ind.Code § 35-13-4-l(a) (Burns 1975), for the 1977 stabbing of Harold Lewis in Evansville. After trial by jury he was convicted. The trial court imposed a sentence of lifе imprisonment on the felony murder count. The murder count was dismissed prior to trial. This direct appeal presents the following issues:
(1) Whether or not the trial court erred in admitting the defendant’s confession.
(2) Whethеr or not the trial court erred in admitting statements attributable to the defendant without proof of the corpus de-licti of the crime of felony murder.
(3) Whether or not the trial court erred in refusing Defendant’s tendered instruction on lesser included offenses.
(4) Whether or not the trial court erred in refusing to grant the defendant’s motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence.
(5) Whether or not the evidencе was sufficient to support the verdict.
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ISSUE I
Over a pretrial suppression motion and timely objection, the defendant’s confession was admitted at trial. The defendant contends he was induced to confess by promises from the interrogating officer that he would not be prosecuted.
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It is the State’s burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant voluntarily and intelligently waived his rights, and that the defеndant’s confession was voluntarily given.
Grey
v.
State,
(1980) Ind.,
“Upon a review of the denial of a motion to suppress a confession and the subsequent admission of that confession over objection, this Court will not weigh the evidеnce or judge the credibility of witnesses. The admissibility of a confession ultimately depends upon questions of fact which are to be resolved by the trial court. * * * If the evidence is conflicting, only that evidence which tends to support the trial court’s ruling will be considered upon appeal. * * * If the trial court’s ruling is supported by substantial evidence of probative value it will not be disturbed.” Wollam v. State, (1978)269 Ind. 286 , 291,380 N.E.2d 82 , 85.
Only the defendant and Deteсtive Bag-gerly, the interrogating officer, testified.
The evidence in favor of the defendant is his own testimony that Baggerly represented to him that there would be no charges filed, if he cooperated, аnd that Baggerly told him that he did not need an attorney.
From the officer’s version of the incident, there is nothing that a reasonable person of the apparent intellect of the defendant could have so construed.
The defendant signed a waiver of his rights and acknowledged his understanding thereof.
On this record we find that there was substantial evidence of probative value to support the trial court’s ruling.
See Baker v. State,
(1980) Ind.,
ISSUE II
The defendant contends that his confession and other statements attributed to him were admitted into evidence without independent proof of the corpus delicti, in this case the underlying felony of robbery.
“Although the corpus delicti оf a crime must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to sustain a conviction, it need not be so proved to render a defendant’s confession admissible. * * * It may be shown by circumstantial evidеnce.”. Grey v. State, supra.
“ * * * (M)urder in the first degree can be committed by a homicide which involves premeditated malice, rape, arson, robbery or burglary, and it is our opinion in this case the corpus delicti is established by еvidence independent of the confession of a homicide from which inferences may be drawn that it was feloni-ously done without evidence independent of the confession specifically оf premeditation, rape or any of the other enumerated felonies.” Jones v. State, (1969)253 Ind. 235 , 246,252 N.E.2d 572 , 578, cert. denied, (1977)431 U.S. 971 ,97 S.Ct. 2934 ,53 L.Ed.2d 1069 .
The prosecutor chose color photographs to depict graphically in detail the location wherе the victim’s body was found and the multiple stab wounds inflicted thereon. The evidence disclosed that the victim had been stabbed and then managed to walk a short distance before he died. We hold that this was sufficiеnt evidence of corpus delicti to allow the confession and statements to come into evidence.
Harrison v. State,
(1978)
The defendant relies upon
Porter v. State,
(1979) Ind.,
“Thus, to establish the corpus delicti, it was necessary to demonstrate that a robbery attempt had occurred, that a human being had been killed during this robbery attempt, and that the robbery attempt and homicide had been committed by someone. See Jones v. State, (1964)244 Ind. 682 , 686,195 N.E.2d 460 , 462.”391 N.E.2d at 809 .
It has been stated that
Porter
and
Harrison
are apparently inconsistent, and that
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Porter
is a correct statement of the law.
Udchitz v. State,
(1979) Ind.App.,
The rule in this state upon the quantum of evidence of the corpus delicti required to render a confession admissible and upon the utilization of the confession, thereafter, to prove all requisite elements of the crime was determined and well stated in the earlier Jones case,
“From an extensive review of the authorities as to the quantum of evidence necessary to prove the corpus delicti in this state, we hold that it is not necessary to make out a prima facie case as to each element of the crime charged nor is it necessary to prove each element of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt before a confession is admissible. We further hold that the traditional definition of corpus delicti, as heretofore quoted from Black’s Dictionаry, namely, that the body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committed, i. e. the corpse of a murdered man or the charred remains of a burnt house, for example, plus independеnt evidence from which an inference may be drawn that a crime was committed in connection therewith, is sufficient to show the corpus delicti. Our rule is stricter than that held by the Federal courts and some stаte courts, as shown above, since in this state we require evidence of criminality in connection with the incident. However, in first degree murder under our felony-murder statute we do not require that the exact felony or attempted felony be established by evidence independent of the confession nor do we require that premeditation be proved by outside independent evidence where the сharge is purposeful and premeditated first degree murder. These elements may be shown by use of the confession in connection with any independent evidence in making out the case.
“There havе been, in decisions of this state at times in the past, some dicta and confusion on this subject matter, and any such statements or cases to the contrary of the principle enunciated above аre hereby overruled. The principle defining corpus delicti, as above, is the majority rule and is that rule which is best designed to allow the efficient administration of criminal law and at the same time afford ample protection of the defendant’s rights where a confession is involved.
“We find that there was sufficient independent evidence under the rule enunciated above to prove the corpus delicti of the crime charged in this case. The independent evidence shows that the homicide committed in this state was one of violence under the circumstances from which one could draw the сonclusion that it was criminal in nature.”253 Ind. 235 , 249-250,252 N.E.2d 572 , 580.
ISSUE III
The defendant contends that the trial court erred in refusing his tendered instruction on lesser included offenses-second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, robbery, theft, assault and battery with intent to commit a *782 felony, and assault and battery-to felony murder.
There are no lesser included homicides of felony murder.
Rodriguez v. State,
(1979) Ind.,
The evidence in this case clearly shows that the decedent was killed in the perpetration of a robbery. The only question the jury had to determine was whether or not the defendant was an accessory to the crime. There was no evidence from which it could have been reasonably found that the defendant was guilty of the robbery but not of the murder; hence the tendered instruction simply was not applicable to the evidence.
See Rogers v. State,
(1979) Ind.,
ISSUE IV
The defendant contends that he should have received a new trial by reason of newly discovered evidence. The claim of new evidence is supportеd by a deposition of Defendant’s former cellmate, Alvin Hunley, which relates that the defendant told Hun-ley that his confession to Detective Baggerly was false and was given out of revenge for the purpоse of implicating his co-defendant.
Although the deposition of Hunley was taken after the trial, the information therein upon which the defendant seeks to rely, i. e., the purpose of his confession, was not a new discovery. The defendant did not testify at his trial, and neither did Hunley.
“A defendant in possession of evidence, who fails to present the evidence at trial, cannot use such evidence as a basis for a new trial following an unfavorable verdict.” Riddle v. State, (1980) Ind.,402 N.E.2d 958 , 961.
We find no error. See
Vacendak
v.
State,
(1976)
ISSUE V
The defendant’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence assumes the correctness of his position upon the issues of the admissibility of his confessiоn and the extent to which it could be utilized by the jury. We have determined those issues to the contrary, and there is no other basis for the challenge presented.
We find no error. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.