Scott v. State

Bowles, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty of murder in Spalding Superior Court on January 26,1976, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was granted an out-of-time appeal and enumerates two errors.

1. Appellant complains that the trial court refused, upon motion, to grant him a separate hearing on the voluntariness of a written confession introduced into evidence. He complains the trial court neglected to make a ruling as to the voluntariness of the confession, and failed to give proper cautionary instruction to the jury on using the statement for impeachment purposes.

The statement of…