Legal Opinion
Vorhauer v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided July 27, 1965No. 59, 1962PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERRMANN, Justice.
The defendant Hans Helmut Vorhauer was convicted and sentenced on a charge of burglary in the fourth degree in violation of 11 Del. C. Sec. 395.
This appeal brings up for review the admissibility in evidence of an oral inculpatory statement given by the defendant to the police during an alleged illegal detention.
I
The uncontroverted dispositive facts are as follows:
The defendant was arrested in his home near Wilmington by State Police officers Lt. Donald J. O’Connor, Det. Sgt. Thomas F. Buckmaster and Det. William B. Fugate. The arrest took place on the night of August 21,1961…
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