State v. Benton

Defendant appeals his conviction for first degree manslaughter. He assigns as error the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress statements that he made to police officers during their investigation. We affirm.

Deputy Sheriff Hatcher responded to a reported homicide at a camp site. Before Hatcher reached the camp site, he saw defendant walking toward him, carrying the body of the victim, a four-year-old boy. Over the next seven days, before defendant was arrested, several police officers interviewed him, and he made numerous statements to them. He contends that 12 of those statements…