Robinson v. State, No. 42712
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of Mississippi |
| Writing for the Court | McELROY |
| Citation | 247 Miss. 609,157 So.2d 49 |
| Docket Number | No. 42712 |
| Decision Date | 28 October 1963 |
| Parties | Jerrell Wayne ROBINSON v. STATE of Mississippi. |
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STATE of Mississippi.
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[247 MISS 610] J. W. Kellum, Sumner, for appellant.
Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., [247 MISS 611] by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
McELROY, Justice.
The appellant was jointly indicated with Wayne J. Lanham, but tried separately and convicted of the crime of burglary. From a sentence of five years in the penitentiary, he appeals and assigns as error the introduction of a confession to a policeman, claiming said confession was involuntarily given, and also assigns as error the introduction of evidence by said policeman showing that his co-indictee was in the custody of the federal authorities.
While in the custody of the officers at the jail in Clarksdale, a policeman of the city was interrogating appellant about the alleged crime of which appellant, at first, denied any guilt, but after questioning him for approximately an hour, according to the policeman's testimony, he changed his story and admitted his guilt; however, such was done after the policeman had made the statement to appellant that he was not telling the truth about the matter, because the other two defendants had told their story and confessed.
The town marshal stated in part that 'he was pretty sure that he had talked to the defendant in the presence of others. He was picked up around the 8th or 9th for interrogation. It was quite a while ago--I don't remember the exact time--strictly on a guess I would [247 MISS 612] say it was in the afternoon. We talked to him in the back in what is called the Sheriff's office, in the presence of Mr. Weeks and Mr. Joe Davis. If I'm not mistaken, there were a couple more, it might have been Mr. Farris or the Sheriff. * * * Well, we told Jerrell (Robinson) that we had talked to the other two boys, and they had come clean, and that we wanted at this time to give him an opportunity to do the same thing. We explained to him that they had committed a crime, and that the only right thing to do was to clear themselves, or 'come clean', and if you committed the crime, the best thing to do is come square with the State, or the City, whoever the crime was against; that it doesn't do any good to try to hide a crime if you committed it. You know you did wrong and you have been caught. * * * We gave him a chance to tell his story, and he told us about going and getting a...
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