McCallum v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder without malice upon an indictment charging that he did “voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill Gus. L. Pierce by some means and manner to the Grand Jurors unknown,” and his punishment was assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged in two particulars, which are: (1) that the evidence is insufficient to establish the corpus delicti, and (2) that if the corpus delicti has been shown, there is no evidence that appellant was criminally connected therewith.

In order to…