Confessions obtained through physical force and torture are inadmissible at trial. Decided February 17, 1936 (argued January 10, 1936). Opinion of the Court: Charles Evans Hughes → go there Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Other areas. Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a defendant's involuntary confession that is extracted by the use of force on the part of law enforcement cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Wiki link