Damas v. People

The reversal is based solely upon the ground that the confession by the defendant, as detailed by a witness for the state, was circumstantial evidence. With the utmost deference to the writer of the majority opinion, and my associates who concur, I dissent from this view.

In my judgment not an authority is, or can be, cited, which supports it. True an extra judicial confession, is to be received with caution, because it may not be correctly stated by the witness or never made, but these considerations merely affect the credibility of the witness testifying to the confession, and cannot by any…