Douglas v. State

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

A jury found Marcus Cleveland Douglas guilty of aggravated robbery and sentenced him to forty years confinement. He appeals by seven points of error, one of which challenges the voluntariness of the statement he gave to police. We abate the appeal and remand the issue of voluntariness to the trial court because the court did not make specific *761factual findings to support its conclusion that the confession was voluntary.

Appellant sought to suppress his written statement at trial claiming that it was not voluntary. The trial court held the required hearing and found it…