Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1883 (Burke v. State)

SOMERYILLE, J.

— The statute which provides that a “confession of .judgment is in law a release of errors” (Code, 1876, § 3945), has never been construed to have any application to cases strictly criminal. The context of the Code, as well as the reason upon which this particular statute is based, shows a legislative intention to confine it to cases other than such as are *401criminal. — McNeil v.