State v. Mitchell

The defendant was convicted of the crime of second degree murder following trial by jury, before Johnson, J., of an indictment charging the defendant with the murder of Susan Davis at Newport in March 1970. The defendant’s exceptions to denial of his motion to suppress evidence of statements made by him to police before he was warned of his constitutional rights, and to denial of his motion to set aside the verdict of guilty, were reserved and transferred by the presiding justice.

Susan Davis was found shot in the left side of the head and lying dead on the floor of the defendant’s filling…