Blount v. State

Wyatt, Presiding Justice.

James Madison Blount was tried and convicted of murder without a recommendation to mercy and was sentenced to death. He filed his motion for new trial upon the general grounds, and amended adding a number of special grounds. His motion was denied. The exception here is to this judgment. Held:

1. Special grounds 1, 9, and 10 complain because certain alleged incriminatory statements by the defendant were admitted in evidence over the objection that the State had failed to show that the statements were freely and voluntarily made. In so far as this contention is…