State v. Boykins

HOUSER, Commissioner.

The first question is whether this conviction of robbery in the first degree should be invalidated under the rule of Escobedo v. State of Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977, Gideon v. Wain wright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed. 2d 799, 93 A.L.R.2d 733 and United States ex rel. Russo v. New Jersey, 3 Cir., 351 F.2d 429. After his arrest appellant was interrogated by police officers. He orally confessed to them that he participated in the holdup of Hy Feigenbaum’s Market at 3501 Cass Avenue in the City of St. Louis on March 25, 1964. The police…