Brose v. State

This appeal presents the question of whether the State established the corpus delicti of the crime of dealing in stolen property with the requisite corroborating evidence aside from Appellant’s extrajudicial statements. We find that there is sufficient evidence, in addition to Appellant’s statements, to affirm the conviction for dealing in stolen property.

The State presented a witness, Officer Aguirre of the Riviera Beach Police, who testified that Appellant, with another man beside him, was pushing a city-issued garbage can filled with twenty to thirty fishing poles in a parking lot located…