Collins v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

1. On the general grounds of the motion for new trial, it is urged by counsel for the plaintiff in error that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction, because the conviction rests on an alleged confession, and the defendant having stated that, “after I got to the city jail some of the law officers give you some punishment and make you tell things which you would not want to say,” the State should have proved whether or not “any of the other policemen or any one else confined in the barracks at that time inflicted punishment on the plaintiff in error or offered him…