Brown v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The evidence was sufficient to authorize the verdict.

The first ground of the amended motion asserts error in the admission of the written confession of the accused, on the ground that the evidence did not show it to have been freely and voluntarily made. After having testified that it had been freely and voluntarily made without hope of benefit of fear of injury, the witness stated that there had been a demonstration around the Carroll County jail, and he and two other officers took the accused to the Fulton County jail, leaving…