Ward v. State

The plaintiff in error, Clay Wallace Ward, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of burglary in second degree and sentenced to be confined in the State Penitentiary for a term of two years. Appeal has been duly perfected to this court.

Counsel for defendant advance two propositions for reversal:

“(1) There was no corpus delicti established and no corroboration of defendant’s alleged extra-judicial confession.

“(2) Error in permitting impeachment and cross-examination by the State of its own witness Sipes.”

Considering the specifications in…