Marvin v. State

The defendant was convicted on a charge of grand larceny for stealing two boxes of tobacco, the property of E. H. Tillery, from his storehouse. It is insisted by defendant’s counsel that there was error in the trial court’s permitting the confession of the defendant to be introduced in evidence, on the ground that the corpus delicti had not been proven.(1) This question is not properly raised by the proceedings as set out in the record. It does not appear that the question which elicited this confession testimony as an answer was objected to before the question was answered. Objection,…