Williams v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant appeals from his conviction for armed robbery.

1. Appellant made a post-arrest statement to police officers. Appellant moved to suppress the statement and a Jackson-Denno hearing was held. The trial court denied appellant’s motion and the statement was admitted into evidence at appellant’s trial. Appellant enumerates as error the denial of his motion and the consequent admission of his statement into evidence.

Appellant first urges that his “arrest” was illegal and that his statement was inadmissible as a “fruit” of that illegal arrest. The evidence is clear that…