State v. Rogers

December 31, 1914. The opinion of the Court was delivered by This is an appeal from the sentence of death imposed upon the defendant for murder.

The first exception is as follows:

"Because his Honor, the presiding Judge, erred in refusing to charge the following request to charge, `That the jury cannot convict on the alleged confession of Junius Rogers unless they find in the evidence submitted to them that the alleged confessions were free and voluntary. In the absence of positive proof that the alleged confessions were free and voluntary, there is no presumption of law, that they were free…