Tucker v. State

This writ of error was taken to a conviction of larceny of domestic animals.

At the trial the court gave the following charge to which exception was duly taken: “Confessions are accepted in courts and before juries as legal and proper evidence and are sufficient even when standing alone to warrant a jury in convicting a defendant if they believe the confessions to be true; but while confessions are so accepted, they should be received and acted upon by jurors with great caution.”

Evidence of an extra judicial confession of guilt standing alone will not authorize a conviction on a criminal…