STATE v. BENTON

86-359-CR; CA A45151.

759 P.2d 332 (1988)

92 Or.App. 685

STATE of Oregon, Respondent, v. Robert BENTON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided August 24, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, and John P. Daugirda, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, filed the brief for appellant.

Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., Virginia L. Linder, Sol. Gen., and Rives Kistler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, filed the brief for respondent.

Before WARDEN, P.J., and VAN HOOMISSEN and GRABER, JJ.


GRABER, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for first degree manslaughter. He assigns as error the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress statements that he made to police officers during their investigation. We affirm.

Deputy Sheriff Hatcher responded to a reported homicide at a camp site. Before Hatcher reached the camp site, he saw defendant walking toward him, carrying the body of the victim, a four-year-old boy. Over the next seven days, before...

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