Butler v. State

Citations

• 129 Miss. 778
• 93 So. 3

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminat, Law. Intoxicating liquors. Officers without warrant cannot over objection, search automobile for whisky; evidence of unlawful search inadmissible.</p> <p>Officers have no right, over the objection of a defendant, to search his automobile for whisky, and the testimony of these officers that they found whisky in a car thus searched is inadmissible; so, also, is the introduction of the whisky found under these circumstances.</p> <p>2. Criminar Law. Corpus delicti must be proven, independently of confession.</p> <p>The corpus delicti cannot be proven alone by a confession, but must be proven aliunde the confession.</p>