State v. Barton

PREWITT, Presiding Judge.

Following jury trial defendant was convicted of felony stealing and sentenced as a persistent offender to ten years’ imprisonment. He presents two points on appeal.

Defendant was charged with taking items belonging to others from the trunk of their car on a parking lot in Big Spring National Park on July 19, 1986. He was there with his wife and infant child.

For his first point defendant states that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress statements he made following his arrest and in admitting those statements at trial because they were coerced by…