Court Opinion

ID: 9636162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:18:30.485046+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:26.690658
License: Public Domain

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice, concurring. I concur for the purpose of pointing out that this Court does not of its own volition find that the confession made by the appellant was involuntary. In fact, we have specifically held that the confession was voluntary; Payne v. State, 226 Ark. 910; but the Supreme Court of the United States overruled this Court on that point. Payne v. Arkansas, 356 U. S. 560, 2 Law Ed. 2d, 78 Sup. Ct. 844. The United States Supreme Court decision that the confession was involuntary is the law of the case. Since it has been thusly decided that the confession was not voluntary, it must be considered as involuntary by this Court in reaching a conclusion as to whether the re-enactment of the crime by the defendant was, therefore, also involuntary. As pointed out in the majority opinion, the re-enactment was so closely connected with the confession as to form a part of the same transaction and is, therefore, inadmissible.