Hadley v. State

Leon Hadley, the appellant, was indicted for and convicted of second degree theft of property. Alabama Code Section 13A-8-4 (1975). Sentence was six years' imprisonment. This appeal involves three issues.

I

Hadley maintains that his oral confession should have been suppressed because it was induced by the promise of the Sheriff's investigator to recommend that he be given probation.

Hadley gave both an oral confession, which was tape-recorded, and a handwritten confession to Tom Nunley, an investigator for the Baldwin County Sheriff's Department. During the suppression hearing outside the…