Dunbar v. State

The appellant was charged, and after trial convicted of burglary in the second degree. The charge alleged that on the 9th day of February, 1960, he broke into an office and an automobile salesroom of one Paul Price and took, among other things, a red tool box, timing light and a Firestone tire.

The assigned error under the motion for a new trial is that the finding and decision is not sustained by sufficient evidence. Under this assignment it is urged that the corpus delicti was not proved by independent evidence aside from the confession.

This necessitates a brief review of the testimony: At…