State v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Wm. H. Wallace, Judge. (1) The confession was properly admitted in evidence. In the case at bar there was-evidence on the preliminary examination that no inducement was held out to obtain the confession from appellant, and in the absence of any improper conduct upon the part of the officers to induce such confession by flattery of hope or promise of immunity or use of threats, the confession was properly admitted in evidence.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Wm. H. Wallace, Judge. (1) The confession was properly admitted in evidence. In the case at bar there was-evidence on the preliminary examination that no inducement was held out to obtain the confession from appellant, and in the absence of any improper conduct upon the part of the officers to induce such confession by flattery of hope or promise of immunity or use of threats, the confession was properly admitted in evidence. State v. Wooley, 115 S.*W. 417; State v. Spaugh, 200 Mo. 596; State v. Hottman, 196 Mo. 127; State v. Barring-ton, 198 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
The prosecution in this case was commenced by the filing of the information duly verified by the prosecuting attorney of Jackson county, wherein he charged the defendant with murder in the *76first degree of one Sidney Herndon on the night of January 12, 1908, in Kansas City, Missouri.
As the information is in all respects sufficient, it is unnecessary to set it forth at length in this statement.
The defendant was arrested and duly arraigned and entered his plea of not guilty and the cause was set down for trial on the 17th day of February, 1908; on which date he was put upon his trial and…
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