Fletcher v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Confession. Admission. Charge. Reasonable doubt. Evidence. New trial. Before Judge Eish. Sumter superior court. May term, 1892.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The court declined to require the jury to withdraw from the court-room so as not to hear the preliminary examination of two policemen touching facts relevant to the free and voluntary nature of certain declarations attributed to the accused which were about to be offered in evidence against him. It turned out that these declarations were not confessions of guilt. This being so, according to some authorities it was unnecessary to inquire whether they were free and voluntary or not. Other authorities seem to be to the contrary. And with the latter has been the…
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