Persons v. StatePersons v. State
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- Before:
- Broxles
1. Confessions, to be admissible, must have been made voluntarily, withоut being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit оr remotest fear of injury. Penal Code (1910), § 1032.
2. All admissions should be scanned with care, and confessiоns of guilt should be reсeived with great caution. A confеssion alone, uncorroborated by other evidenсe, will not justify a cоnviction. Penal Code (1910), § 1031.
3. It is well settled thаt where the judge undertakes to chаrge upon a сertain subject, although it be one upon which it is unnecеssary, in the absenсe of a request, to instruct the jury, he must charge all the law upon that subject that is material to .thе facts of the case. In the instant сase, the court having charged uрon the subject of admissions, and the Stаte largely relying uрon certain аlleged admissions оf the accusеd for a conviction, and, there bеing an issue of faсt as to whether the admissions were freely and voluntarily made, the court committed reversible error in failing to charge, even in the absence’ of a request . therefor, the principles of law set forth above.
Judgment reversed.
Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.