State v. McFall

STRUCKMEYER, Justice.

Richard McFall was indicted, tried and convicted on five counts of obtaining narcotics by forgery of prescriptions, A.R.S. § 36-1017, as amended by Laws of 1963, Ch. 59. The Court of Appeals affirmed the *236convictions. Opinion 5 Ariz.App. 539, 428 P.2d 1013 vacated.

Defendant McFall urges that his statements made to the arresting officers and a written statement in his handwriting, a duplicate of the forged prescriptions, were involuntary. He testified that he was a narcotic user and when arrested had in his possession some narcotic “tablets and pills”. Then:

“Q Did you feel…