State v. Curtis

OPINION

By FESS, PJ.

Appeal on questions of law from a judgment and sentence of the defendant upon a finding by the court, a jury having been waived, that the defendant was guilty under two counts of an indictment charging the defendant with having carnel copulation against nature with a dog on March 3rd and also on July 10th, 1958.

The principal error assigned is the claimed admission of a confession of the defendant without proof of the corpus delicti. “Corpus delicti” means the body or substance of the crime. It may be proved without any reference to the accused. For example, in a homicide…