Barnes v. State

The appellant, John T. Barnes, seeks a reversal of his conviction of the murder of Sidney Burns, and mainly upon two grounds: (1) The alleged failure of the prosecution to prove the corpus delicti aliunde the confessions of the accused, on account of which it is contended that he was entitled to a direted verdict of acquittal; and, (2) that it was error to admit the confessions over the objection of ihe accused since they were not freely and voluntarily made, and that therefore he is at least entitled to a new trial.

A decision of the first question above stated is not without some difficulty,…