Kittle v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is the general rule that in the trial of a criminal case the failure of the court to charge the law of confessions, in the absence of an appropriate and timely request, is not cause for the grant of a new trial; and while it is true that `there is a distinction between a case in which the conviction may depend upon a confession or upon other evidence, and a case in which conviction, if had, must depend upon the confession' ( Rucker v. State, 2 Ga. App. 140 (2), 58 S.E. 295 ), in which latter case the trial judge should, without request, charge on the law of confessions, yet in the present case the conviction was not one which, if obtained, must have depended alone on the confession of the defendant, but could have been sustained by other evidence introduced by the State. In the absence of a timely written request, the judge did not err in omitting to charge the jury on the law of confessions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 76 Ga. App. 427 - Davis v. State