Grove v. State

Me. Chiee Justice Peewitt,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant below, Willie Grove, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to serve not more than ten years in the State Prison.

Defendant relies upon the defense that his confession was coercively obtained, and that the evidence preponderates against the verdict.

Further that the defendant was arrested upon the theory that he committed a robbery on May 1, 1961, and the evidence of the latter offense should not have been admitted on the ground that circumstances of arrest are always relevant.

The deceased,…