Pope v. State

The appellants were indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of burglary-; the burglary being alleged and shown to be of the storehouse of the Booneville Hardware Company, a corporation.

It is contended by the appellants that there was not a sufficient establishment of the corpus delicti by evidence aliunde the confessions of the defendants, and this constitutes the assignment of error, a peremptory instruction having been requested and refused directing a verdict. of acquittal.

The evidence for the state, apart from the confessions-of the defendants, is that on the date in question the…