Cotton v. State

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• finding that when objection is made during bench conference, the complaining party must preserve the record for appeal to avoid being procedurally barred
• explaining that a confession corroborated by “independent proof’ of the “body or substance of the crime” is sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
• finding that when objection is made during bench conference, the complaining party must preserve the record for appeal to avoid being procedurally barred
• “Because the defense failed to request that the jury be admonished, the sustaining of the objection was sufficient to prevent reversible error. There is no reversible error where the court did all that it was asked to do.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).