State v. Cook

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Following nonjury trial defendant was convicted of driving while intoxicated and fined $400. He appeals, presenting two contentions of trial error.

Defendant states in his first point that the trial court erred in allowing a witness to testify to statements made by defendant that he had been driving the vehicle because “the admission of the testimony violates the rule that when the corpus delicti has not been sufficiently proven, an uncorroborated extrajudicial confession of guilt cannot be regarded as evidence tending to show guilt.”

Unless there is some independent proof…