State v. Johnson

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was charged with breaking and entering the hotel room of Mrs. Charles Weigand in the nighttime, on March 17, 1941, with felonious intent to steal. The jury found him guilty as charged and he was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary at hard labor. He appealed and relies upon two bills of exception taken to the ruling of the trial court in admitting both an oral and a written confession of the defendant over his objections. He contends that the State failed to show that the confessions were free and voluntary but that, on the contrary,…