Cannada v. State

WHITE, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for the theft of a horse. There are two bills of exception in the record before us. One is as to the admission of the proof of the *538confession of the defendant to the sheriff, Chaney. This evidence of the confession was admissible, because it appears from the statement in the bill of exceptions that the sheriff did hot induce the confession by any promise or hope of favor held out to the defendant. The doctrine now held in regard to confessions is ‘ ‘ that there must be a positive promise made or sanctioned by a person in…