Claybourn v. State

Duckworth, Justice.

Grounds 1 to 13, inclusive, of the amendment to the motion for a new trial comprise 169 pages of the record. Since all of these grounds deal with alleged error in allowing evidence of confessions which defendant alleges were induced by fear and coercion exerted upon him in procuring the first confession, upon which ground 1 is based, and which remained and influenced subsequent confessions set out in the other grounds, they will be treated together. It is provided by the Code, § 38-411: “To make a confession admissible, it must have been made voluntarily, without being…