State v. Mason

McGraw, Justice:

The defendant was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Clay County in April of 1975. He prosecutes this writ of error for review contending on several grounds that his confession was improperly admitted into evidence and that the trial court erred in giving State’s Instruction No. 25. We find no reversible error in the trial court judgment and affirm the conviction.

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The defendant claims that because the police failed to comply with the statutory criminal procedure of this state, primarily the provision which states that an officer “shall take…