State v. Lytle

RENDLEN, Judge.

Defendant appeals his convictions for the first degree murder (felony murder), § 565.003,1 of Pauline Chambers, armed criminal action, § 571.015, and robbery in the first degree, § 569.020, committed during a burglary. Error is asserted in the admitting of defendant’s confession which he contends was coerced, involuntary, and taken in violation of U.S. Const, amends. V and XIV.

Defendant was charged by a six-count indictment: Count I, first degree murder of Earl Chambers, § 565.003; Count II, armed criminal action, § 571.015; Count III, first degree murder of Pauline Chambers, §…