Adams v. State

I concur in all the rulings of the court except the one embraced in the fourth headnote and in the corresponding division of the opinion. Prom this ruling and the judgment granting a new trial I dissent. That ruling is based upon the assignment of error contained in the eighth ground of the defendant’s motion for new trial. In this ground the defendant alleges that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “If you believe that a confession was made and that confession was not made freely and voluntarily, you would not be authorized to convict on a confession alone, unless that…