Kinard v. United States

MILLER, Associate Justice.

Appellant has been twice convicted of murder in the first degree on account of the killing of his wife. Judgment upon the first verdict was reversed by this court on an earlier appeal.1 There is now presented to us, on appeal from the second judgment, the single question whether the court erred in charging the jury as follows:

“Now, some statements made by the defendant himself have been presented in this case. Some of these statements were not made in any judicial hearing, and they were offered on the theory of confession, those statements tending to show the…