State of Oregon v. Goodwin

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court, based upon the verdict of a jury, which found him' guilty of the crime of buying and receiving stolen property. The sole assignment of error follows:

“The court erred in not sustaining the objection to the introduction of the recorded confession in evidence for impeachment purposes.”

No evidence was presented indicating that the recorded confession was voluntarily made and, therefore, it was presumably involuntary. State v. Bouse, 199 Or 676, 264 P2d 800. When the recording was offered in the state’s case in chief as a…