Court Opinion

ID: 9669890
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:10:36.918417+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:00.955868
License: Public Domain

LAWSON, Justice
(concurring specially).
I cannot agree with that part of the opinion holding that the defendant was not entitled to testify as to the facts and circumstances concerning an alleged confession or confessions which the State introduced under the circumstances shown in the court’s opinion without thereby subjecting himself to cross-examination as to matters pertaining to his guilt or innocence, sanity or insanity.
While I am not willing to say that the trial court should be reversed in this particular case because of its ruling on this point, I wish to record my position concerning that ruling.
MERRILL, J., concurs in the foregoing views.