Jackson v. State

Bochelle Jackson was convicted of murder, and received the death penalty. His motion for new trial, consisting of the general grounds and two grounds of amendment, was overruled, and he excepted. The State proved the corpus delicti.' Evidence of a confession made by the defendant to the witness Sumner was admitted without objection.

The first special ground of the motion presents the contention that the penalty of death should not have been inflicted, for the reason that the same is “contrary to law and the principles of justice,” the verdict having been “based on his confession, though…