Witt v. State

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was tried for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Held:

1. Testimony by an investigator that during an interrogation while in custody the defendant "said he didn’t know anything about any shooting,” i.e., the cause of the homicide, and that the defendant suggested "we might have been arresting him for striking the fellow [not the victim of the shooting] in the bar earlier” is not a confession within the scope of the requirements of Jackson v. Denno, 378 U. S. 368 (84 SC 1774, 12 LE2d 908, 1 ALR3d 1205), and the trial judge did not err in…