Watson v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellant contends we should reverse his conviction of robbery, asserting that there was error in the admission into evidence of his purported confession, and in the court’s refusal to give his requested jury instruction relating to the voluntariness of his confession, and that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. We find reversible error in the admission of the alleged confession.

We have for some time been committed to an independent determination of the voluntariness of a confession based upon an examination of the entire record, whenever an attack…