State v. Williams

Defendant assigns as error the introduction into evidence of certain inculpatory statements made by defendant to Chief of Police Tharrington and Sheriff Dement, contending that the safeguards of defendant’s rights as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, were not provided.

The evidence disclosed that Sheriff Dement went to defendant’s home on Sunday morning around 9:30 or 10:00 after the altercation on Saturday night. He did not place the defendant under arrest but merely talked with defendant in his home on that occasion. Chief Tharrington went to defendant’s home…