Lester L. Jackson v. United States

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

We reversed a previous conviction of this appellant because on the record then before us, it appeared that the police had on Sunday, December 14, 1958,1 purposefully failed to arraign the accused and so had illegally detained him in order to extract a confession. We held to be incompetent a confession so procured and based upon unwarned oral admissions made before a preliminary hearing had been afforded.2 At a new trial the confession was again received in evidence after a hearing in the absence of the jury, the trial judge having determined that the confession had been…