ROBERSON v. STATE

6 Div. 600.

301 So.2d 237 (1974)

Billy Joe ROBERSON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

October 1, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph C. Burroughs, Public Defender, Joel L. Sogol, Asst. Public Defender, Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Larry R. Newman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

Murder, second degree: sentence, twenty years. Manslaughter, first degree: sentence, five years. Consolidated trial.

The only claim of error argued by the appellant is premised on a claimed failure to posit the Miranda warnings. The defendant's inculpatory statement was not used by the State in its case in chief. Instead it was used only to rebut the defendant's own testimony.

While we do not find that the Miranda...

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