Whitfield v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is murder, and the punishment is twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The first complaint raised by appellant in his brief is at the court’s action in permitting the State to introduce in evidence four alleged voluntary confessions made by the appellant. The introduction of these confessions was contested on the ground that they were induced by duress and coercion on the part of the officers. The voluntary character of the confessions are stated in the confessions themselves and the officers taking the same each testified that they were freely and voluntarily made.…