State v. Kiplinger

SEILER, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction, upon trial by the court, of the offense of malicious destruction of property (a garage) by fire, a misdemeanor, Section 560.395, V.A.M.S. His punishment was assessed at one year in the St. Louis County jail. Defendant contends his alleged oral confession testified to by a police officer, was not voluntary and that defendant was denied assistance of counsel while in police custody, thus violating defendant’s rights under Sections 10 and 19 of Article I of the 1945 Constitution, V.A.M.S. and the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the…