Pierce v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The evidence in this case on the part of the State tends to prove the corpus delicti, and in making out its case the State was allowed, over the objections and exceptions of the defendant, to identify and introduce, in evidence, the clothes worn by the party assaulted at the time of the difficulty, which clothes showed the rents made by the knife of defendant during the fight. These clothes were shown to have been worn by the party assaulted at the time of the difficulty, and were covered with blood, and were in the same condition as when taken from the body of the assaulted…