Flagg v. People

It would be somewhat difficult to properly characterize the remarkable course adopted in this case to induce the respondent to make a confession, and it would be still more difficult to say that it could, under the circumstances, be used as evidence against the respondent when on trial. The course adopted by the detective, Moore, at the jail, and what took place the next day at the time the statement made was reduced to writing, was so contrary to all modern principles of fairness and justice that it could not and cannot be tolerated.

We here give the detective’s own version of what took place…