State v. Hogan

Appellant was indicted for the crime of murder. He was . tried, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to death. He appeals from the verdict and sentence. There are three bills of exception in the record.

Bill of exception No. 2 was reserved to the action of the trial judge in overruling defendant’s objection to the admission of the testimony of one Alex. Mizell, apparently a deputy sheriff, introduced by the state to prove a confession made by the accused. The ground of objection was that the alleged confession “was obtained in violation of tlie article of the 'Constitution, in that it tended…