Owens v. State

Only the second headnote requires elaboration. In the fourth special ground of the motion error is assigned on the following charge: “Now I charge you, with reference to some other evidence in this case, upon the law of confessions. There is no evidence here that this defendant ever expressly confessed anything, but there is evidence here that certain statements were made in his presence by B.osa Lee Davis tending to connect him with the crime, and that when these statements were made he did. not deny these statements. It is contended in the case that amounted to a tacit admission, to an…