Hart v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of burglary and attempted rape. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

Appellant gave an inculpatory in-custody statement to the police. Pursuant to appellant’s motion, the trial court conducted a Jackson v. Denno hearing to determine the voluntariness of the statement. At *835the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court ruled that it would “admit the statement and let the jury make the ultimate determination as to whether or not it was freely and…