State v. Norton

Defendant plead self-defense. Defendant’s first assignment of error is that the court erred in admitting in evidence a voluntary written statement made by him a few days after he was arrested which is designated Exhibit P-1. Defendant claims that the exhibit was not a confession because it was a statement accompanied by an explanation which negatived criminality and the error complained of is that “while the Court finally withdrew Exhibit P-1 from the consideration of the jury as a ‘Confession’ he nevertheless admitted it as an ‘Admission’, without separating out the parts which were…