Persons v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from Carroll superior court — Judge Eoop. June 4, 1921. A ground of the motion for a new trial was that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “ Certain • evidence has been offered before you, claimed 'by the State to be ad-miss-inna amounting to inculpatory or incriminating statements.
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Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from Carroll superior court — Judge Eoop. June 4, 1921. A ground of the motion for a new trial was that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “ Certain • evidence has been offered before you, claimed 'by the State to be ad-miss-inna amounting to inculpatory or incriminating statements. You look to the evidence and determine whether or not any such admissions or incriminating statements have been made, — if the defendant George Persons made any such admissions or inculpatory statements. If he did, why then you will determine from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Broxles, O. J.
1. Confessions, to be admissible, must have been made voluntarily, without being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury. Penal Code (1910), § 1032.
2. All admissions should be scanned with care, and confessions of guilt should be received with great caution. A confession alone, uncorroborated by other evidence, will not justify a conviction. Penal Code (1910), § 1031.
3. It is well settled that where the judge undertakes to charge upon a certain subject, although it be one upon which it is unnecessary, in the absence of a request, to…
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