State v. Paris

Carrigan, Judge:

This is an appeal by John Paris, hereinafter referred to as defendant, from a final order of the Monongalia County Circuit Court dated December 16, 1969, sentencing defendant to a determinate sentence of fifteen years upon a jury conviction of the offense of breaking and entering.

On February 2, 1969, defendant was arrested and charged with breaking and entering. The next day he was interrogated by two Morgantown police officers who wrote out a confession which he signed, the first paragraph of which reads as follows:

I, the undersigned, John Paris, of 1296 Fairfield Ave.,…