People v. Stockford

Defendant, was arrested in January, 1963 on a warrant and charged with sodomy, second degree, and of impairing the morals of a child. He was quesioned by the police after his arrest and before arraignment and made a confession. He was convicted in 1963 and sentenced to prison.

In a coram nobis proceeding in 1966 addressed to this judgment, the trial court held that the confession was voluntary *148and the absence of counsel, and the failure of the police to advise him of his right to counsel, and of his right not to incriminate himself, did not invalidate the confession. This was affirmed at the…