State v. Pollock

SHANGLER, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for twenty-five years. The appeal contends, among other grounds, that the confession in evidence was involuntary and otherwise inadmissible because the product of an unlawful arrest.

The contention that the confession was not admissible evidence was raised by formal motion and determined by a hearing in limine. The admission was taken from the defendant Pollock in an Iowa county jail where he and Joan Shinn, a companion, were held for a local burglary. The statement, given to…