Fortune v. State

The evidence without dispute proved the corpus delicti, as it shows conclusively that in the nighttime some person or persons took the automobile of Shade Williams from his home and carried it about three-fourths of a’ mile away, and there stripped it of the tires, tubes, and rims and carried said articles away. The verdict of the jury rested upon the second count in the indictment, which charged this defendant and another, not on trial, with the larceny of the articles mentioned above. There was no direct testimony to connect either of the accused persons with the commission of the offense…