33 Ala. App. 522 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1981
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tillison v. State · Johnson v. State · Herring v. State · 26 Ala. App. 74 - Freeland v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"Statements of collateral facts, not criminating within themselves, but depending on other and outside evidence, disclosing a chain of circumstances incriminating in character, are not confessions or admissions against interest within the rule requiring a predicate of voluntariness prior to their admission in evidence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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