Faulkner v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for burglary; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The State’s case depends upon the confessions of the appellant — one, oral and the other, written. The admissibility of the confessions is challenged.

It would serve no useful purpose to detail the facts touching the making of the confessions. It is sufficient to say that, according to the admissions of the officers, appellant made the confessions after having been slapped, knocked down, arid confined in a dark or dungeon-like cell by the officers having him in custody — all with the purpose and…