Coates v. State

Duckworth, Justice.

The first special ground of the motion for new trial assigns error on the instruction to the jury on the law relating to a confession as evidence. It is contended that the charge was not authorized by the evidence, was not adjusted to the issues in the ease, and caused the jury to believe that the judge thought there was evidence of a confession. The evidence shows that upon being asked why he killed the deceased the defendant answered that he did not know, that people acted “squirrelly” sometimes, and that he laid upon top of the hill and wondered why he did it and thought…