Heard v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Carroll County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. The confession was inadmissible because the corpus delicti was not proved and because the writing required by law was not produced.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Carroll County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. The confession was inadmissible because the corpus delicti was not proved and because the writing required by law was not produced. Stringfellow v. State, 26 Miss. 157; Pitts v. State, 43 Miss. 472; Jenkins v. State, 41 Miss. 582; State v. Laliyer, 4 Minn. 368; Peter v. State, 4 S. & M. 31; Wright v. State, 50 Miss. 332. Evidence of Nash’s admission was in his absence competent as res gestee of the confession. Objection to non-production of the writing comes too late. The ground in the lower court was failure to…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
The appellant was convicted, principally on his own confessions of grand larceny in stealing the money of one Nash. Nash, who we presume was dead or beyond the jurisdiction, was not produced as a witness, and it is insisted that there is no proof *546of the corpus delicti, except by the confessions of the accused, which according to the authority of Jenkins v. State, 41 Miss. 582, and other cases, are insufficient of themselves to sustain a conviction. Where there has been a confession by the accused, much slighter proof is required to establish the corpus delicti than would be necessary where…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. BadgleyNew York Supreme Court · 1836
- Morris v. HendersonMississippi Supreme Court · 1859
- Wesling v. NoonanMississippi Supreme Court · 1856
- Jenkins v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1872
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