STATE v. WARREN

No. 722.

68 S.E.2d 779 (1952)

235 N.C. 117

STATE v. WARREN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 1, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles G. Powell, Jr., Member of Staff, Raleigh, for the State.

C. J. Gates and M. E. Johnson, Durham, for the defendant, appellant.


ERVIN, Justice.

An extrajudicial confession of guilt by an accused is admissible against him when, and only when, it is in fact voluntarily made. State v. Rogers, 233 N.C. 390, 64 S.E.2d 572. When the circumstances surrounding the confession in issue are appraised at their true probative value, they engender an abiding conviction that the confession was wrung from the defendant by coercion on the...

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