Smith v. State

— Donald Smith and Delilah Guire were charged with theft 1 of two air conditioning units from.Goldblatt Brothers, Inc., a department store in Hammond, Indiana. Smith had made two extrajudicial confessions of guilt — one to the store security officials when Smith returned the goods, and one to the police. At the court trial, these extrajudicial confessions were admitted into evidence over defense counsel’s objections. Smith and Guire were convicted, and their timely filed motions to correct errors raise the following issues for our review:(1) Was there sufficient independent evidence to…