State v. Goldizen

Lively, Judge :

The prisoner, Andy Goldizen, was convicted of the murder in the second degree, of Harman Bell, and sentenced to confinement for 18 years. The main point of error upon which he relies for reversal of the judgment is that the court permitted his written confession to go to the jury over his objection and exception.

Harman Bell was shot through the head while passing-through a lonely gap in the mountain, known as' Hopeville Gap, through which lies a narrow road, and through which flows a small mountain stream. The murderers had secreted ■themselves in the cliffs on the right of the…