State v. Roof

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Fisi-iburne.

The defendant was convicted upon a bill of indictment charging him with the larceny of an automobile, the property of Edward Hartley, on Wednesday, the 30th day of August, 1939. From this judgment the defendant appeals, assigning error.

It is first contended that proof of the corpus delicti had not been established, and that the Court erred in refusing to direct a verdict on this ground.

There was evidence tending to show that Edward Hartley, the owner of the automobile, who lived at Batesburg, accompanied by J. D.…