Porter v. State

On June 26th, 1918, the judgment herein was affirmed. I entered my dissent at the time. On the motion for rehearing I have reviewed the case with decided degree of interest in its legal aspects. My views entertained at the time for not agreeing to the affirmance have been more than strengthened by a revision of the record and the rulings of the trial court. I do not believe that the facts, as evidenced by the record, justify the conviction. Under the Texas statute it is necessary as a prerequisite to a conviction in homicide cases that the corpusdelicti be proved. The body of the deceased…