by circumstantial evidence was deemed sufficient to affirm the defendant’s conviction. Id. at 731, 536 P.2d at 299. In Tiffany, the defendant argued that the trial court improperly denied her motion for judgment of acquittal because the state had not proved the corpus delicti for her convic tion of involuntary manslaughter. Tiffany, 139 Idaho at 912, 88 P.3d at 731. Tiffany was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for smothering her infant son in an attempt to stop his crying. The pathologist concluded that the cause of death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome because the autopsy did not disclose any traumatic injury, disease, or congenital abnormality and because the child was under six months of age. However, the pathologist also testified that, if Tiffany’s confession App.1979) (<HOLDING>). Much like the testimony of the pathologist in
holding that in an arson case there must be other proof that the offense was committed to corroborate a confession by the defendant holding an insured corporation could not recover for a fire loss caused by its controlling shareholders arson holding that the state failed to prove the corpus delicti of arson in that there was no evidence to corroborate the appellants confession establishing that the fire was caused by a criminal act holding that corpus delicti rule is satisfied if some evidence exists outside of extrajudicial confession which considered alone or in connection with confession shows that crime actually occurred holding where the defendants conduct in setting a fire was a proximate cause of a fire fighters death the death occurred in course of and in furtherance of the arson