United States v. Walter J. Entrekin, Jr.

The defendant Walter J. Entrekin, Jr. was convicted under 18 U.S.C.A. § 876 for communicating a threat to injure persons and property belonging to another. On appeal the defendant attacks the admissibility of the testimony of a special agent of the F.B.I. relating to certain admissions against interest made by him while in custody. Defendant urges that the statement was involuntarily made and that it was induced by a promise of the F.B.I. agent not to arrest the defendant’s wife for the same offense. 1

During the trial the court held a hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress the agent’s…