McDuff v. State

BAIRD, Judge,*

concurring.

I write separately to more fully discuss the sufficiency of the evidence to establish murder in the absence of the victim’s body. In points of error one and two, appellant contends the evidence is legally insufficient to prove the corpus delicti of the murder since no body was produced and there was neither a confession by appellant nor non-accomplice testimony establishing the death. Appellant further contends that if accomplice witness testimony is utilized to establish corpus de-licti, it must be corroborated.

*622I.

The corpus delicti of any crime “simply consists of…