State v. . Ross

This case presents a number of difficult questions. In the first place, the prisoner is under a sentence of death for the murder of Eula Odum, and there is no evidence or admission on the record that any such crime was ever committed. All evidence of the corpus delicti has been omitted from the case, and it does not appear, by agreement or otherwise, that this was proved on the hearing. 7 R. C. L., 774. In justice to the trial court, it should be said that the only part of the statement of case on appeal, which he settled, is the charge. The balance was agreed upon by the solicitor for the…