Jarvis v. State

HERRMANN, Justice:

The defendant asks us to set aside his conviction of burglary on the ground that the conviction rests upon an inculpatory written statement admitted in evidence in violation of his statutory and constitutional rights.

The dispositive facts are these:

On October 19, 1965, at about 2:00 P.M., the defendant was taken into custody by the police of the town of Selbyville on suspicion of a burglary committed a few days earlier. Later that afternoon, he was turned over to a State police detective who was in charge of the investigation and who took him to the Georgetown State Police…