Shula v. State

Jonathan David Shula was indicted and convicted for first degree rape. Sentence was twenty years' imprisonment. Two issues are raised on appeal.

I

Shula argues that his confession should have been suppressed because there was no voluntary, intelligent or knowing waiver of constitutional rights defined in Miranda v. Arizona,384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), because the accused was an eighteen-year old high school student, "who was acting in a bizarre or unusual fashion, and who appeared frightened, upset and nervous." (Appellant's Brief, p. 22.) Shula also argues that the…