Blackburn v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The United States Supreme Court has remanded this case for a consideration of appellant’s claim to the protection of the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Blackburn v. State, 38 Ala.App. 143, 88 So.2d 199, certiorari denied 264 Ala. 694, 88 So.2d 205, reversed 354 U.S. 393, 77 S.Ct. 1098, 1 L.Ed.2d 1423.

The admission of the alleged confession was objected to on the ground that it was not voluntary in that (1) it was obtained by sustained questioning, and (2) appellant was shown to have been insane at the time the confession was…