State v. Boyer

A jury found the defendant-appellant, William R. Boyer, guilty of murder in the first degree. The District Court entered judgment on the verdict and sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.

The defendant asserts the trial court erred in (1) admitting his confession into evidence, claiming it to have been the product of an illegal arrest and not voluntarily made; (2) failing to change venue; (3) failing to grant a mistrial due to the prosecution’s failure to produce certain evidence upon motion of the defendant; and (4) submitting the question of guilt to the jury as the evidence was…