Court Opinion

ID: 9825537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:19:16.540272+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:57.914752
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
[5, 6] It is urged by counsel, on , application for rehearing, that the record fails to show proof of the corpus delicti. The question to be determined here is, not whether there was enough proof, but was there sufficient proof to go to the jury upon that question to sustain the verdict; the jury being the sole judges as to what weight will be given the evidence. And while under the mile this court is not required to review the evidence, the insistence of appellant’s counsel is so urgent, we feel impelled to say: The defendant was indicted in two counts with larceny of a hog and receiving stolen property knowing to it to have been stolen. Was the hog stolen? There disappeared from the farm of R. S. Cross 15 or 20 hogs, about the time the hog in this case is alleged to have been stolen; some of these hogs were marked with an underbit in the center of the right ear; the defendant owned no such hogs; nobody else in that community are shown to have owned hogs having that mark; the defendant lived about one mile from Cross, and was seen in company of one Manning coming in the night from the direction of Cross’ place shortly áfter a gun had fired, and Manning was carrying a dead animal, either a goat or a shoat, and defendant was carrying a gun; on that night a hog freshly dressed, killed by a gunshot and having Cross’ mark, was found in the house of defendant, and when the defendant was asked by the officers where he got the hog he gave the common thief’s answer, that he bought him from a stranger by the side of the road. There were other facts and circumstances to support the state’s theory of the case, but the above was ample to submit the question to the jury on both counts.
Application overruled.