Walker v. State

NATHAN, Judge.

Bernard Walker, defendant, was informed against, tried by jury, convicted and sentenced to ten (10) years in the state penitentiary for torturing or unlawfully punishing a child.

For his point on appeal, Walker contends that the trial court erred in summarily denying the motion to suppress his confession without a specific finding of volun-tariness. The record reflects that the trial judge merely stated, “Motion to suppress denied.”

We find McDole v. State, Fla.1973, 283 So.2d 553, to be controlling. In McDole, the Supreme Court first quoted Sims v. Georgia, 385 U.S. 538, 87 S.Ct.…