State v. Van Brunt

The defendant was tried and convicted on an information charging him, jointly with several others, with larceny of a yearling bull calf, the true owner being unknown, on October 10, 1941. He appeals.

His confession introduced in evidence is as follows:

“I, Gerald Van Brunt, make the following statement and confession of my own free will and accord after being fully advised of all my legal rights and without promise of immunity or without threat being made to me. Sometime in the fall of 1941 Dick Peasley met me in Omak and wanted to know if I would like to take a ride to Nespelem. Dick had a…