Moore v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

1. While “all admissions shall be scanned with care, and confessions of guilt shall be received with great caution,” and “a confession alone, uncorroborated by any other evidence, shall not justify a conviction” (Code, § 38-420), yet “a conviction may be lawfully had upon a free and voluntary confession, though the same be not otherwise corroborated than by proof of the corpus delicti.” Burns v. State, 188 Ga. 22 (3), 28 (2 S. E. 2d, 627), and cit. The conviction of this defendant of murder by shooting the deceased with a pistol was amply authorized by a signed written…