State v. Travis

The defendant appeals a conviction of burglary (OES 164.230). The indictment charged the breaking of a house and an assault upon a female occupant. The only issue upon appeal is whether the trial court should have excluded incriminating admissions made by the defendant to an investigating officer.

*215■ The complaining witness had reported to the police that the defendant, with whom she was acquainted, had broken into her house at night while her husband was away and that she had awakened to find the defendant on her bed. A police officer called at the defendant’s home for the purpose of cheeking…