Case ID: sw2d_148/html/0418-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BEAUCPIÁMP, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCOTT v. STATE.
    No. 21470.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 5, 1941.
    Harvey P. Shead, of Longview, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   BEAUCPIÁMP, Judge.

Appellant was given two years in the penitentiary on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property, from which he appeals.

The indictment properly alleges the theft of $250 by another party and the receipt and concealing of same by appellant. The only evidence relied upon to support the conviction is the testimony of Bill Maddox, a policeman, who relates that appellant told him that he had received $250 of the money and said he hid it.

By an appropriate bill of exception the defendant attacks the sufficiency of this evidence to support a conviction on the ground that the state has failed to show that the money which appellant admitted he received was acquired by theft. The corpus delicti may not be established by the extrajudicial confession of the appellant alone, which may only be utilized to aid other proper evidence to establish it. Franklin v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 144 S.W.2d 581, and J. T. Patterson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 146 S.W.2d 993, not yet reported [in State Report],

The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.