Smith v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

OPINION

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The first four grounds of error presented by appellant’s brief are as follows:

“The Appellant urges his Points of Error No. One, Two, Three and Four in part upon the basis that the State failed to prove the corpus delicti of the offense alleged in the Indictment by its failitre to produce evidence that the alleged Deceased, Roberta Thornton, is in fact deceased and as the result of any act by this Appellant or by any other cause. The only evidence offered by the State of this essential element of the offense of murder with…