Houston v. State

The defendant Houston appeals from a verdict of guilty of the murder of John P. Easterday and a life sentence thereon.

He claims, in the first place, that the corpus delicti was not proved and, in the second place, that there was no evidence to connect "him with the offense, except that of a confessed accomplice, under the law made insufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty. These questions were raised by motion for an instructed verdict at the close of the state’s case and by a motion for new trial.

After defendant had perfected his appeal, he presented to the trial court a motion to set…