Allen v. State

Appellant Robert J. Allen was convicted in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County of receiving stolen property of the value of over $25. Code of 1942, Sections 2249, 2538. He contends that there was insufficient corroborative evidence aside from his confessions to establish the corpus delicti of the crime, the confessions were improperly admitted in evidence, and he was entitled to a peremptory instruction.

*743According to the testimony for the State by T. C. Clark, warehouse foreman for the Southern Wholesale Company, from which the cigarettes were stolen, and Ray Price, deputy sheriff, appellant…