State v. Paris

414 P.2d 512 (1966)

76 N.M. 291

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Carroll Wayne Paris, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 7828.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 7, 1966.

On Rehearing May 16, 1966.

Frazier, Cusack & Schnedar, Roswell, for appellant.

Boston E. Witt, Atty. Gen., Frank Bachicha, Jr., Roy G. Hill, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for appellee.

CARMODY, Chief Justice.

Defendant appeals from judgment and sentence following his conviction by a jury of the crime of larceny.

The first contention is that the court erred in admitting defendant's confession because the corpus delicti of the crime of…