Johnson v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Edward Lee Johnson was convicted of burglary and car theft, and sentenced to serve twenty years for burglary and ten years consecutively to serve for car theft. He brings this appeal enumerating as error the admission of a confession. Held:

In substance Johnson argues that the trial court employed an inadequate and improper test in determining voluntariness. The attack against the court’s admission relies upon state’s evidence that Johnson was unable to read and that the lack of literacy required the trial court to apply a more stringent test in determining voluntariness. There…