Citation Numbers: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 63
Judges: Jackson
Filed Date: 7/1/1885
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/8/2022
1. From the preliminary examination of the child of six years of age, on whom a rape was alleged to have been commit
2. The confessions made by the prisoner to Jordan in the presence of his wife were not voluntary confessions, free from fear, and were not admissible. Where Jordan told the prisoner, that if he did not confess to him, he would have to confess to a justice of the peace, it was equivalent to telling him that unless he confessed he would be arrested and taken before a justice of the peace and tried for the offense, and this being done in the presence of the mother of the child charged to have been ravished, and who was accusing the defendant of the crime, such a confession does not appear not to have been induced by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury. Code, §3793.
Judgment reversed.