Williams v. State

Herbert Williams appeals from a conviction of stealing a hog of Gny Williams. It is insisted by his assignments of error that the. corpus delicti was not established, and that he was convicted upon an alleged confession illegally obtained..Gny Williams, the prosecutor, had six hogs of an average weight of 250 pounds in a certain pasture. He saw them in that pasture on a certain Friday in January of. 1946, but upon his return the following Sunday morning they were gone. This pasture adjoined a field belonging to witness McNeil. One of the gates in the line fence between the two fields had been…