State v. Marcy

The appellants were jointly charged, by information, with the crime of grand larceny, in that they had sold a quantity of dynamite and caps, of the value of over twenty-five dollars, not their own property but known to them to have been stolen. Verdicts of guilty having been returned by a jury, sentences were imposed by the court.

The principal error assigned for reversal is the insufficiency of the evidence to establish the fact that the property alleged to have been sold was stolen; that is to say, there was insufficient proof of the corpus delicti.

On the night of September 23, 1936,…