Case ID: sw_239/html/1116-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SIMS v. STATE.
    (No. 6942.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 26, 1922.)
    1. Criminal law <S=»5I7(4), 538(3) — Want of other proof goes to weight, rather than admissibility, of confession.
    That neither the theft nor the venue thereof was proved by other evidence than defendant’s confession goes to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of such confession.
    2. Criminal law <⅞=5535(½) — Confession available in aid of other proof to establish corpus delicti.
    A confession, while not adequate alone to establish the corpus delicti, is available in aid of other proof to do so.
    Appeal from District Court, Kaufman County; Joel R. Bond, Judge.
    George Sims was convicted of theft, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The conviction is for theft. Punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

In the only bill of exceptions in the record, complaint is made of the receipt in evidence of appellant’s written confession. The point made against it is that neither the theft nor the venue thereof in Kaufman county had been proved by other evidence. The objection we think would go to the weight rather than to the admissibility of the evidence. The ' confession was definite to the effect that the theft had been committed by the appellant and another in Kaufman county; and details are given touching the manner of acquiring the property and its concealment and disposition. These details were corroborated by other evidence sufficient to show that the theft was committed by the appellant, and that it took place in Kaufman county.

The Confession, while not adequate alone to establish the corpus delicti, was available in aid of other proof to do so. See Harkey v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 234 S. W. 221; Jackson v. State, 29 Tex. App. 464, 16 S. W. 247; Branch’s Ann. Tex. Penal Code, § 1890.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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