McLemore v. State

Bussell, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In all of the Codes of Georgia (1863, § 3716; 1868, § 3740; 1873 and 1882, § 3793; Penal Code of 1910, § 1932; Code of 1933, § 38-411), the rule governing the admissibility of confessions is embodied in the following pungent language: "To make a confession admissible, it must have been made voluntarily, without being induced by another, by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury.” Our reports are full of adjudicated cases upon the subject of the admissibility of evidence of confessions, and of rulings in particular…