McCarson v. State

The appellant urges that his convictions of larceny of an automobile and unauthorized use of the automobile 1 be set aside because an oral statement obtained during a custodial interrogation of him was not shown to have been voluntarily made.

As in Edwards v. State, 7 Md. App. 108, the record here discloses that out of the presence of the jury the State produced evidence from which the trial judge could properly find that the statement was voluntarily obtained but did not produce the same evidence before the jury, as is customarily done. It produced evidence before the jury sufficient to show…