Denney v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and convicted of one count of burglary. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered on the guilty verdict.

1. The trial court’s admission into evidence of appellant’s in-custody statement is enumerated as error.

Appellant first asserts that his statement was not voluntary because it was induced both by the threat that his mother would remain incarcerated on the burglary charge until he made a statement and by the promise that if he confessed his mother would be released. In addition to appellant’s own testimony regarding the…