SMITH, Acting Chief Judge.
Mims and Hutto were jointly charged and tried for burglary. Mims' motion for a separate trial was denied. During the joint trial, over objection by Mims, the state was permitted to adduce evidence of oral and written confessions given by Hutto which implicated Mims. A passing attempt to disguise Hutto's incriminating references to Mims was made by substituting pronouns and other words in place of Mims' name. The altered confession thus read...
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