STATE v. BLAKNEY

No. 14534.

605 P.2d 1093 (1979)

STATE of Montana, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Larry L. BLAKNEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided December 13, 1979.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Connor & Van Valkenburg, Missoula, John P. Connor, Jr., argued, Missoula, for defendant and appellant.

Mike Greely, Atty. Gen., Helena, Mary B. Troland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Helena, Robert L. Deschamps III, County Atty., argued, Missoula, for plaintiff and respondent.


HARRISON, Justice.

Defendant-appellant was arrested on the charge of deliberate homicide on June 14, 1977, after police had obtained a confession, the product of several interrogations. Appellant thereafter moved to suppress the confession because it was involuntary. The District Court, however, found the confession voluntary, denied the motion and set trial in the matter. Appellant was convicted of the charge and sentenced to forty years in the Montana state prison...

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