State v. Capotelli

This appeal is from a conviction of the felony of receiving stolen property in the city of St, Louis and a sentence of imprisonment in the state penitentiary for two years.

The main questions are the sufficiency of the proof of the corpus delicti and the admissibility in evidence of an extra-judicial confession in the alleged absence of such proof. There was evidence which we will assume tended to prove the larceny from Rothschild Bros. Hat Company, a corporation, during .June and July, 1923, of a large amount and of great value of ladies’ and men’s dress gloves. In December, 1923, Charles…