State v. . George

The exception to the admission of evidence of the confession of the defendant was properly overruled. The testimony was clearly admissible. It was voluntary and without any inducement of hope or fear, and was made after he was cautioned by the witness Pearson not to tell anything to convict himself. The evidence would have been admissible even if the defendant at the time of making the confession had been in custody and charged with (570) the crime. S. v. Patterson, 68 N.C. 292.

The grounds assigned for the arrest of judgment ought not to have been sustained.

It was necessary in the indictment…