Duren v. State

1. The court did not err in allowing a witness to testify as follows: “I heard the defendant’s statement in the recorder’s court. The recorder asked him if he wanted to make a statement, and he replied that he did, and made the following statement: ‘The whisky in the grips was my whisky. It belonged to me.’” The objection to this testimony was that the statement was not freely and voluntarily made; but the evidence does not sustain this contention.

2. There is no merit in the exceptions to portions of the charge to the jury, taken in grounds 2 and 3 of the amendment to the motion for a new…