Wilson v. State

On the principle that efforts to compromise or settle cannot be proved as admissions against a party making them (Sanders v. State, 148 Ala. 603, 607, 41 So. 466, 468), I respectfully dissent.

The testimony of the witness Trammell that defendant sought his aid to effect a settlement of the criminal prosecution clearly comes within the proscriptions of this rule.

The exception, discussed in Harrison v. State, 235 Ala. 1,178 So. 458, that the rule is inapplicable where the voluntary offer of settlement embodies an express admission of guilt, has no play here. Defendant made no such admission.

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