State v. . Livingston

The confession of the defendants made under the inducement that the chances were “it would be lighter on them” if they would say they got the property, coupled with the remark of the officer, “it looks like you had about as well tell it,” must be regarded as arising out of circumstances which render it involuntary, and, therefore, incompetent as evidence against appellant. S. v. Myers, ante, 381; S. v. Whitener, 191 N. C., 659, 132 S. E., 603; S. v. Jones, 145 N. C., 466, 59 S. E., 353; S. v. Horner, 139 N. C., 603, 52 S. E., 136.

Almost the identical question here presented, certainly the…