Moore v. State

McGehee, O. J.

The precise question involved on this appeal is whether or not two confessions made by the defendant of the crime of murder, of which he was convicted and sentenced to death, were made freely and voluntarily. These two confessions and other testimony in the case disclosed the following facts:

On the afternoon of January 27, 1948, the defendant Arthur Moore came to the conclusion that he wanted some money and that he would get it by force and violence. To that end he obtained an ordinary claw hammer and went into Valley Street, in the City of Jackson, where he found parked at the…