TATE, Justice.
The defendant Vessel was found guilty without capital punishment of murder. La.R.S. 14:30; La.C.Cr.P. Art. 817. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On his appeal, the defendant principally contends that his written confession was improperly admitted into evidence, and that the murder weapon and other evidence recovered as a result of his involuntary oral statements should also have been excluded as the fruit of a poisoned tree.
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