People v. Underwood

O’Neal Underwood and his 17-year-old cousin, Marshall Wisdom, were jointly charged with rape, robbery, and kidnaping. After the preliminary hearing the charges against Wisdom were suspended, and he testified as a prosecution witness at the trial of Underwood.1 A jury found defendant guilty of the crimes with which he was charged, and he has appealed from the judgment of conviction, contending that the court erred in admitting evidence of extrajudicial statements made by himself and by Wisdom which were, assertedly, the product of police coercion.

Mrs. Mamie Dozier, the prosecuting witness,…