Logue v. State

In order to convict for the murder of a newly born baby, it is incumbent upon the State to prove that the child was born alive and had an independent and separate existence from its mother, and that it was slain by the accused.

A proved confession of the accused showing all of these elements, when corroborated by independent evidence in material respects, including the corpus delicti, is sufficient to authorize a verdict of guilty.

The law does not require that the corpus delicti be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by independent evidence as a condition precedent to the consideration by the…