McIlwain v. United States

KERN, Senior Judge:

This appeal presents for our determination whether the trial court committed reversible error by admitting into evidence an inculpatory statement uttered by appellant while in his room in the boarding house in which he lived. This was the scene of the crimes with which he was later charged and convicted by a jury — enticing a child, sodomy and taking indecent liberties with a *471child.1 We conclude there was no error and affirm.

The particular facts and circumstances of this case implicate both the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and their interrelationship when a defendant is…