Cammon v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a capital murder case. Appellant, a sixteen year old, was tried by a jury and found guilty of the murder of Natalie He-rold. Prior to trial, appellant was certified as an adult and, upon being found guilty of capital murder, was given the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Appellant asserts as his first ground of error on appeal that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence appellant’s written statement because it was not given knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily but was the product of coercion. The statement of which appellant complains is…