Lee v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) One of the two grounds of certiorari insisted upon by the defendant is that the written statement of the defendant which was introduced in evidence, being only an incriminatory admission, does not amount to a confession, and that it was error for the trial court to give in charge the law as it relates to confessions of guilt.

The State introduced in evidence the signed statement dictated by the defendant to the investigating officers, the material portions of which are as follows: “On or about June, 1948, I received a phone call from a person whom I know as…