State v. Keegan

The defendant addresses his arguments to two issues: “(1) whether the State established a Corpus Delicti (2) whether the indictment was proved by the evidence presented.”

The statute here involved, RSA 583:3, reads as follows: “If any person shall, in the nighttime, break or enter . . . any building . . . lying within the body of any county . . . and shall therein commit larceny, he shall be imprisoned not more than five years.”

As to the first issue raised, the defendant argues that neither the cash register, from which a small sum was taken, nor any of the several bottles of liquor, which…