State v. Davidson

The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. The trial judge sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment. On this appeal the defendant raises a baker’s half-dozen challenges to the judgment of conviction. All are carefully briefed and persuasively presented, but none require nor warrant a reversal of the judgment.

1. Admission Of Statement.

The defendant claims that the admission into evidence of defendant’s statement, made after his request for counsel, was improper.

At the trial a Goodchild-type hearing was held to determine admissibility of defendant’s statement to the…