Case Name: Almond v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1952-01-29
Citations: 208 Ga. 673
Docket Number: No. 17726
Parties: Almond v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 208
Pages: 673–673

Head Matter:
Almond v. The State.
No. 17726.
Submitted January 17, 1952
Decided January 29, 1952.
H. O. Hubert Jr., Thomas 0. Davis, W. Harvey Armistead, for plaintiff in error.
Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Roy Leathers, Solicitor-General, Hugh C. Carney, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.

Opinion:
Duckworth, Chief Justice.
The confession was sufficiently corroborated. Proof that the nude body of the lady whom the indictment alleges the accused murdered was found back of a coal pile in the basement of her home, which with a ruptured larynx, congestion of the head and neck, and evidence of strangulation with a thin material such a rope or tie, and evidence of an attempted rape, together with the finding of her clothes buried some distance from the house, was sufficient to prove the corpus delicti. The verdict of guilty was supported by the evidence, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial, which contained only the general grounds. Langston v. State, 151 Ga. 388 (106 S. E. 903); Jester v. State, 193 Ga. 202 (17 S. E. 2d, 736); McVeigh v. State, 205 Ga. 326 (53 S. E. 2d, 462).
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.