State v. Thompson

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Ollie Thompson, convicted by a jury and sentenced by the court to 75 years’ imprisonment on a charge of forcible rape, § 559.260, V.A.M.S., has appealed.

Defendant first asserts that the court erred “in admitting the defendant’s confession into evidence since it was made in the highly coercive atmosphere of the police station after a lengthy interrogation held without advising the defendant of his constitutional rights.”

An examination of this record reveals no evidentiary basis for defendant’s assertion; nothing to indicate “coercive atmosphere”; nothing to indicate that…