Case Name: Cecil Scott v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1941-03-05
Citations: 141 Tex. Crim. 296
Docket Number: No. 21470
Parties: Cecil Scott v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 296–297

Head Matter:
Cecil Scott v. The State.
No. 21470.
Delivered March 5, 1941.
The opinion states the case.
Harvey P. Shead, of Longview, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
BEAUCHAMP, 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 $250.00 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 $250.00 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 extra judicial confession of the appellant alone, but may only be utilized to aid other proper evidence to establish it. (Franklin v. State, 144 S. W. (2d) 581, and J. T. Patterson v. State, being cause No. 21,362 on the docket of this court and not yet reported.) (140 Texas Crim. Rep. 661).
The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.