Creager v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

WOMACK, Judge.

We granted discretionary review of this case to decide if the court of appeals had correctly analyzed the appellant’s claim that his written statement was involuntary.

The appellant was interrogated by the 271st Judicial District Attorney’s investigator, who obtained an arrest warrant from a magistrate in Jack County and went to Hobbs, New Mexico, where the appellant was working. After the appellant was arrested, the investigator interrogated him in the Hobbs Police Department’s jail. The interrogation was tape-recorded, and the…