Sullivan v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Douglas county. Tried below before Slabaugi-i, J. Confession without proof of corpus delicti will not support a conviction. (Commonwealth v. Aclcert, 133 Mass. 402; Matthews v. State, 55 Ala. 187; Williams v. People, 101 111. 382; Priest v. State, 10 Neb. 393; People v. Hennessey, 15 Wend. [N. Y.] 147; Stringfclloio v. State, 26 Miss. 157.)
1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, J.
On an information charging him with the crime of murder Thomas Sullivan was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of eleven years. Of the errors assigned the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is the only one properly before us for consideration. The action of the court in giving and refusing certain instructions is called in question and discussed by counsel at considerable length, but the point was not raised in the motion for a new trial and cannot be successfully urged for the first time in this court. The substance of the…
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