Jefferies v. State

1. An incriminatory admission or confession by a defendant in a criminal case, standing alone, is not sufficient to authorize conviction unless there is proof of the corpus delicti or other evidence aliunde tending to establish the guilt of the accused. Code § 38-402; Devore v. State, 7 Ga. App. 197 (1) (66 S. E. 484); Ransom v. State, 2 Ga. App. 826 (59 S. E. 101).

2. Where, as here, the defendant is tried on an accusation charging her with keeping, maintaining and carrying on a lottery jointly with four other defendants against whom there are accusations arising from the same transaction,…