Boudreaux v. State

Smith, C, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the forcible rape of a girl eleven years old. At the request of counsel for the appellant, the court inquired into the present sanity of the appellant, and on the evidence properly held that he was then sane.

The principal assignment of error is that the court below erred in admitting three confessions of the appellant, the grounds of the objection being (a) the corpus delicti was not sufficiently proven aliunde the confessions, and (b) the confessions were coerced.

The evidence as to the corpus delicti is…