GILES v. UNITED STATES

No. 12981.

400 A.2d 1051 (1979)

Ernest GILES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Sullivan, Bowie, Md., for appellant.

Paula J. Page, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, David W. Stanley and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KERN and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of second-degree murder while armed and sentenced to prison for a term of eight to twenty-four years for killing one Eleanor Haywood. He claims on appeal that a confession was improperly admitted into evidence since it was the product of an illegal arrest. For the reasons discussed herein, we affirm.

On January 1, 1977, James Haywood discovered his wife's lifeless body on the floor of their apartment. She had...

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