Bass v. State

*558OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

These appellants were jointly tried and convicted of the offense of murder with malice, which occurred on February 18, 1972. The jury assessed punishment for appellants Bass and Haynes at life imprisonment and assessed appellant Coleman’s punishment at twenty (20) years in the Department of Corrections.

At the outset we are confronted with a common ground of error—that the trial court reversibly erred in admitting into evidence the extrajudicial confessions of the other non-testifying appellants, thereby depriving them of the right of confrontation guaranteed by…