State v. Paris

CARMODY, Chief Justice.^

Defendant appeals from judgment' and sentence following his conviction by a jury of the crime of larceny. • •

The first contention is that the court erred in admitting defendant’s confession because the corpus delicti of the crime of larceny had not been established independent of the confession. The state on the other hand contends that the extrajudicial confession may be considered in aid of the independent evidence to establish the corpus delicti, and even if not, the corpus delicti was proved here by circumstantial evidence.

The corpus delicti of larceny is…