Jordan v. State

The defendant was convicted of larceny from the house. He filed an amended motion for a new trial on the general and three special grounds, each of the special grounds raising substantially the same question of law. The motion for a new trial was overruled and to this judgment he excepts and assigns the same as error.

The State relied for a conviction on proof of the corpus delicti and a confession of the defendant. There is no controversy as to the proof of the corpus delicti; but the sole question raised is whether the alleged confession relied on by the State to convict the defendant was…