Reid v. Commonwealth

Linwood Reid, indicted for the murder of Sophie Harding, was tried and found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years. Through the same court-assigned counsel who defended him in the court below he has appealed. In his assignments of error he contends that the lower court erred in these respects:(1) In admitting in evidence his purported confession without first hearing his testimony that it was not voluntary;(2) In admitting in evidence the confession “without independent proof beyond a reasonable doubt of…