Couley v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS CRIMINAL COURT.' 1st. When a confession is made by a defendant it mustappear that the confession w-as made free and voluntary; and that any confession or admission of guilt, or any fact which,may tend to the proof of it, made by the defendant under inducements held out to him to produce a confession, whether those inducements are of a character to create hope in the mind of the defendant that he may by making such confession escape temporal punishment,…
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APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS CRIMINAL COURT.' 1st. When a confession is made by a defendant it mustappear that the confession w-as made free and voluntary; and that any confession or admission of guilt, or any fact which,may tend to the proof of it, made by the defendant under inducements held out to him to produce a confession, whether those inducements are of a character to create hope in the mind of the defendant that he may by making such confession escape temporal punishment, or of a different character and calculated to produce fear in (he mind of the defendant;;the confessions so made are…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Ry£,and
delivered the opinion of the court.
The indictment in this caá’é contained two coiints ; the first for burglary and the second for grand larceny. The defendant was found guilty on both counts, and sentenced to imprisonment on the first count ■for ten years, and on the second for five years.
‘On the trial the burglary was proved by R. N. Nesbitt; the person whose house had been robbed. The State also introduced as witnesses S. Micheaux, the officer who arrested the prisoner, and B. Nesbit, a son of the prosecutor. Their testimony was as follows :
“The first time I saw defendant was…
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