People v. Borgetto

The respondent was convicted of murder in the first degree.

Counsel for the respondent assigns error upon 'the instructions to the jury upon the subject of confessions and malice. Counsel, in his brief, says:

“ The court commented on the alleged confession when instructing the jury, saying, ‘It is generally agreed that deliberate confessions of guilt are among the most effectual proofs in the law/ The language of the court, above quoted, was argumentative, and therefore erroneous.”

We are not cited 'to the page of the record where this language is found, but think we have not overlooked the *338langu…