James v. State
James v. State
Opinion of the Court
The indictment in this case contained two counts; one for grand larceny, and the other for buying, receiving, concealing, or aiding in the concealing, of stolen property, the property alleged in each count of the indictment being a cow belonging to one Bill McKee. On the trial of the case, the defendant, Will James, was convicted by the verdict of the jury as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty on the first count.” “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of receiving stolen property as charged in the second count.”
There was no evidence proving or tending to prove the corpus delicti, and the court was in error in refusing the affirmative charge for the defendant as requested in writing. For this error the judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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