Selvidge v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bed Biver. The ease was tried before Hon. B. W. Gray, one of the district judges. The appellants, James H. Selvidge and Mumford Harmon, were indicted for horse stealing. The material points in the case arose upon the confessions of the prisoners.
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Appeal from Bed Biver. The ease was tried before Hon. B. W. Gray, one of the district judges. The appellants, James H. Selvidge and Mumford Harmon, were indicted for horse stealing. The material points in the case arose upon the confessions of the prisoners. The bill of exceptions stated that “the witnesses, with several other armed men, arrested the defendants, and accused them of horse stealing; the defendants denied, and the witness stated to defendants that they did steal certain horses now mentioned in the indictment, and that it would be better for them to tell all about it; the…
1Opinion of the CourtDonley, J.
The confessions of the appellants offered in *64evidence were objected to on the trial of the cause. The ground of objection is not stated. It is said that the objection should have been sustained, because at the time the confessions were made the appellants were in custody,' and were not voluntary. The circumstances under which the confessions were made were such as to render them inadmissible as evidence, unless the confessions are confirmed by finding facts and circumstances stated by the appellants to be true. On this point the jury were correctly charged, that if, in the confessions of the…
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