Barron v. State

Citations

• 111 Miss. 231
• 71 So. 374

Syllabus

<p>1. Arson. Corpus delicti. Criminal law. Confession. Admissibility.</p> <p>To establish the corpus delicti of the crime of arson, it is not only-necessary for the state to prove that the property of the prosecutor named in the indictment was burned, hut to establish also that the fire originated through a criminal agency.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law. Confession. Admissibility. Corpus delicti.</p> <p>A declaration by accused in a prosecution for arson that this brother was guiltier than he was, if intended as a confession, was inadmissible, where the only evidence to prove that the barn was burned by a criminal agency was that it was burned at an early hour in the morning, which was not sufficient to establish the corpus delicti.</p>