The People v. Denham

The defendant, Milton Denham, was convicted of armed robbery following a jury trial in the Cook County circuit court and sentenced to a term of 2 to 10 years in the penitentiary. He appeals directly to this court contending, primarily, that a knife seized from him at the time of his arrest should have been suppressed since the defendant’s arrest resulted from interrogation of third parties who had not been warned of their constitutional rights.

On August 9, 1966, Leon Miller was arrested by Chicago police officers in connection with a robbery. During the course of his interrogation by the…