Mississippi Supreme Court, 1904

Brown v. State

Brown v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided November 15, 1904 · Truly
85 Miss. 27

Brown v. State

Opinion of the Court

Truly, J.,

Appellant was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering a storehouse with intent to commit larceny. The testimony for the state proved a breaking of the outer door, and that the cash drawers had been broken into. The intent to steal was reasonably predicable of these facts, and, even in the absence of *29positive evidence that anything was actually stolen, was sufficient proof of the corpus delicti to authorize the admission of the defendant’s confession.'

Affirmed.

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