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STATE v. EDWARDS

No. 20.

199 S.E.2d 459 (1973)

284 N.C. 76

STATE of North Carolina v. John Lee EDWARDS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., by Ralph Moody, Sp. Counsel, Raleigh, for the State.

F. Lloyd Noell and Robert L. Satterfield, Hillsborough, for defendant.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The critical question of law presented on this appeal is the legal admissibility of the defendants' oral confession made to Officer Cohoon in the courthouse in Hillsborough on December 2, 1971. The State contends the court was correct in holding that "[T]he two months and some few days which the defendant was away from Orange County and in Cherry Hospital had washed out the effects of the first two confessions [at Chapel Hill and at Hillsborough...

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