Connor v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

“We have learned the lesson of history, ancient and modern, that a system of criminal law enforcement which comes to depend on the ‘confession’ will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on *14extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation.” Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977 (1964).

The record of this cause reflects that Walter Gilbert Conner, henceforth appellant, was convicted by the jury of committing the offense of…