Brown v. State

1. In special ground 2 error is assigned .upon the ground that the court erred in charging upon the law of confessions for the reasons (a) there was no evidence showing that the defendant had made a confession of having committed the offense of murder for which he was on trial, (b) while the evidence showed that the defendant said he shot the deceased, it also shows either justification or accident, and in neither event would it be a confession of murder, (c) the charge constituted an intimation on the part of the court that the defendant had made a confession of having committed the offense…