United States v. Carignan

Respondent Carignan was convicted in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska of first degree murder in attempting to. perpetrate a rape. Alaska Compiled Laws Annotated, 1949, § 65-4-1. He was sentenced to death. The conviction was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Carignan v. United States, 185 F. 2d 954. The sole ground of the reversal was the admission of a confession obtained in a manner held to be contrary to the principles expounded by this Court in McNabb v. United States, 318 U. S. 332, and Upshaw v. United States, 335 U. S. 410.

The case is…