State v. Ryder

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

Appellant was charged for the murder of his paramour, Wanda Wykoff. He was found guilty and sentenced under the Habitual Criminal Act to 65 years in the custody of the Division of Corrections. We affirm.

Appellant’s first two assignments of error concern the admission into evidence of a written statement and a tape recorded interview which appellant gave the police. The gravamen of appellant’s complaint is that neither the statement nor the interview should have been received into evidence without first determining whether they were given voluntarily.

The fourteenth amendment…