Bartee v. State

The sole question involved here on this appeal, is whether or not the acknowledged confession of the appellant, George Bartee, to the crime of burglary, on which he was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Hinds county, was freely and voluntarily made.

It was contended b3^ the appellant upon the trial that, on the night of December 30, 1936, he was arrested and placed in the city jail at Jackson, Miss., as a suspect in connection with the burglary of Jitney Jungle Store No. 2 on South Gallatin street, which had been burglarized and from which a considerable quanta of cigarettes and some…