Doan v. State

Scott, Justice.

This is an appeal by the state pursuant to Minn. St. 590.06 from an order of the district court granting postconviction relief in the form of a new trial to defendant, who is now on parole after having served several years of a life sentence for a 1945 conviction for second-degree murder, a conviction we affirmed in State v. Doan, 225 Minn. 193, 30 N. W. 2d 539 (1947). The issue on this appeal is whether the district court erred in determining that the written confessions, on which defendant’s conviction was partly based, were involuntary. We reverse and remand with directions.

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