State v. Pruett

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

Defendant, convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, raises two issues on appeal: (1) Whether the trial court’s denial of a continuance was an abuse of discretion; and (2) Whether the confession given by defendant to a Jackson, Mississippi, police officer should have been suppressed. We affirm.

1. Defendant was arraigned on September 14,1982, at which proceeding he announced that he would represent himself with assistance from the public defender. Trial was set for December 13th. At a continuance motion hearing on December 7th, a conflict…