State v. Johnson

Defendant appeals from two convictions in cases jointly tried, one charge rape and one armed robbery. The assignment of error is that the trial court failed to conduct an in camera hearing concerning the voluntariness of an oral statement, received in evidence, made by the defendant to police officers.

Defendant allegedly broke into a home where two young women were staying alone while the parents of one of them were on vacation, and with the use of force and threats raped and robbed them. The crimes occurred around 11 p.m. on December 29, 1971. From descriptions given by the women, detectives…