Johnson v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried on an accusation in the city court of Nashville, charging him with the offense of larceny from the house. He was found guilty by the jury, and he made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled. This judgment was excepted to and assigned as error. Besides the usual and general grounds of error, an additional ground of error is assigned, excepting to the judgment of the court in admitting certain statements made by the defendant, while under arrest, as a confession of his guilt, it being insisted that the said statements did not amount to a confession of…