Court Opinion

ID: 9848302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:16:10.771735+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:12.085101
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Candler and Hawkins, Justices,
dissenting. We dissent from the ruling of the majority in the 4th division of the opinion and from the judgment of reversal. In a homicide case it is not necessary that the defendant should say in so many words that he had committed murder in order to authorize a charge on the law of confessions. An admission of the main fact, from which the essential elements of the criminal act may be inferred, amounts to an admission of the crime itself. Where, as in this •case, the defendants admitted, without qualification, that, during the commission by them of a robbery of the deceased, they inflicted upon him wounds with a rock, a bar, and an axe, which other evidence showed produced death, this was sufficient to authorize a charge on the law of confessions. Coney v. State, 90 *557Ga. 140 (3) (15 S. E. 746); Webb v. State, 140 Ga. 779 (79 S. E. 1126); Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 315 (91 S. E. 72); Morrow v. State, 168 Ga. 575 (148 S. E. 500) ; Wright v. State, 186 Ga. 863 (199 S. E. 209); Coates v. State, 192 Ga. 130 (15 S. E. 2d 240); Fields v. State, 211 Ga. 335 (85 S. E. 2d 753); Weatherby v. State, 213 Ga. 188 (2) (97 S. E. 2d 698).