State v. . Scates
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Mukdeb, tried before Sattndeiír, J., at the Spring Term, 1S58, of Oleaveland Superior Court. The charge was for the murder of a small child of the ago of about two years, by burning and by a blow.
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INDICTMENT for Mukdeb, tried before Sattndeiír, J., at the Spring Term, 1S58, of Oleaveland Superior Court. The charge was for the murder of a small child of the ago of about two years, by burning and by a blow. The deceased was the child of the prisoner’s wife, born’ previously to his marriage with her, and it tvas proved by .oiid Pttress that the prisoner’s mother Was greatly displeased at'tlus Carriage, and told the prisoner that, if he did not put the child out of the way, she would; that the prisoner was a weak-minded man, but considered as perfectly sane. This witness saw the child ja…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
No principle of law is better established than "that the confessions of a prisoner shall not be admitted as evidence against him, when they have been obtained from him through the influence of the passions of either hope, or fear. It is also well settled in this State, as well as in England, that when confessions have been thus extorted, any others subsequently made, shall be attributed to the same source, unless it be shown that, by means of a caution, or otherwise, the improper influence has been removed from the mind of the prisoner, so that the subsequent confessions cannot be taken t#…
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