Campbell v. State

We provisionally granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to consider that aspect of the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals dealing with the requirement of voluntariness of an inculpatory statement used to impeach. That opinion prohibits the introduction into evidence of such a statement made by an accused during an in-custody interrogation "unless the predicate of trustworthiness or voluntariness is established."

Our review of the decisions of the highest court in the land convinces us that the Court of Criminal Appeals is correct, and that the record of the trial in which…