Case ID: ga-app_9/html/0878-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3702.
    Butler v. The State.
    Decided October 23, 1911.
    Accusation of sale of mortgaged property; from city court of Americus — Judge I-Iixon. August 5, 1911.
    
      Hollis Fort, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Zach Childers, solicitor, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

The evidence relied upon to support the verdict consists only of incriminatory statements by the accused, and there is no evidence whatever, aliunde these statements, tending to prove the corpus delicti. The verdict is therefore contrary 'to' law. Judgment reversed.