State v. Williford

Defendant’s first assignment of error challenges the admission ■of the confession alleged to have been made by defendant to Officer J. L. Denning.

The test of admissibility is whether the statements made by defendant were in fact voluntarily and understanding^ made. State v. Gray, 268 N.C. 69, 150 S.E. 2d 1, cert. denied 386 U.S. 911; State v. Rogers, 233 N.C. 390, 64 S.E. 2d 572; State v. Roberts, 12 N.C. 259.

Defendant contends, inter alia, that the purported confession was not voluntarily and understanding^ made because of his physical and mental condition at that time. He relies upon the…