Miller v. State

PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson County. There the defendant was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The primary issues to be reviewed are: Was the incriminating statement of the defendant voluntarily given so that it could be admitted into evidence, or was it the result of an offer of immunity and therefore inadmissible; and secondly, was the testimony of the accused given as a State’s witness at a preliminary hearing of a co-*625defendant admissible in evidence against her in her trial for murder ?

On February…