SASSER v. STATE

1 Div. 30.

497 So.2d 1131 (1986)

Curtis SASSER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1986.

Certiorari Quashed November 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Byrd, Mobile, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and J. Elizabeth Kellum, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


Alabama Supreme Court 85-580.

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Thirty-year-old Curtis Sasser was indicted and convicted for the first degree sodomy of his six-year-old niece. Sentence was twenty years' imprisonment. On appeal, Sasser argues that his confession was involuntary and inadmissible, primarily because of his mental retardation.

"The question of whether a confession is voluntarily made turns on the totality of the circumstances in each particular case...

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