Collins v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant now contends for the first time on appeal that the trial court erred in refusing to give his specially requested charge or to respond to his objections for its failure to instruct the jury that, in determining whether his written statement was voluntary, they must also decide whether the statement was made without persuasion.

The court also refused to give appellant’s requested instruction which was as follows:

“You are instructed that the word ‘persuasion’ as used in this charge, has its ordinary meaning of influencing the mind by means of…