Scarbrough v. State

The conviction of the defendant, Clyde Scarbrough, for the crime of burglary was not had as a result of a fair and impartial trial, even though there was an issue of fact to be properly submitted to the jury as to whether corporal punishment was inflicted on the accused after he had accommodated the officers by making a free and voluntary confession or whether it was inflicted immediately prior thereto.

During the month of October, 1947, a store building in the Town of Quitman, where the defendant resided, was burglarized during the nighttime, and some shirts, pants, and cartons of cigarettes…