Burnley v. Commonwealth

Robert Thomas Burnley, defendant, was tried in the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville on an indictment charging him with rape. The jury found him guilty of the offense and fixed his punishment at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of twenty years. On August 18, 1966, judgment was entered in accordance with the verdict. We granted Burnley a writ of error to that judgment.

In his assignments of error relied upon, defendant contends that the trial court erred (1) “in admitting the confessions, oral and written,” given by him to police officers and the Commonwealth’s…