Court Opinion

ID: 9773045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:35:31.814907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:43:54.069617
License: Public Domain

TEAGUE, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent because, contrary to the majority opinion’s finding, “In the instant case appellant’s oral confession, as related by Wingo at trial was essentially the same as that to which appellant’s uncle had previously testified appellant had told him before appellant ever told the police anything[,]” (P.-), I find that “Mr. Shelton’s testimony of the appellant’s statement to him is far less impressive than the detailed account set out by Lieutenant Win-go in his testimony concerning the ‘oral confession’ containing detailed gruesome and calculated actions by the appellant” (Appellant’s Reply Brief, P. 7). The error in admitting the oral confession into evidence was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.