Weaver v. State

Appellant Weaver was convicted of first-degree murder at the conclusion of a jury trial in the LaPorte Superior Court on June 7, 1963, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. This conviction was appealed to this court and affirmed. Weaver v. State, (1966) 247 Ind. 315, 215 N.E.2d 533. In January of 1973, appellant filed a petition for post-conviction relief pursuant to Ind. R. P. C. 1. This petition was denied, and the present appeal follows.

The sole question for our review is whether the standards for the admissibility of the confessions of juveniles, which this court enunciated in Lewis v.…