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to a moral certainty that the
prisoner is guilty.

I will now read the instructions
asked on the part of the prosecution
and given by the court.

"The voluntary and deliberate admissions
or confessions of the defendant, made
after the commission of the offense, may
be taken by the jury as evidence of his
guilt. The jury may and should consider
the circumstances surrounding the
defendant under which the alleged
confessions were made, and if the jury
believe the said confessions, they would
be warranted in acting upon them as
evidence of guilt, the corpus delicti
being proven by other evidence."

And I will now read the instructions
asked in behalf of the defendant and
assented to by the prosecution
and given by the court:

I "The Jury are the sole judges of the credibility
of the witnesses who have testified in
this case."

II. Although the jury may be satisfied