Court Opinion

ID: 9667251
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:40:25.859969+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:36.462414
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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
Appellant again urges that his conviction should be reversed because of the admission into evidence of the unwarned response to the question, “Where do you live”, which was propounded to him by the officer who had first asked his name and later arrested him. He contends that because the officer was permitted to say that appellant pointed toward the apartment in question, it then became necessary to put appellant’s wife on the stand in order to develop a defense he would not otherwise have had to present. Without conceding that such was the case, we will consider the initial admissibility of his response to the officer. We do this realizing that we are writing in a new area since the rendition of Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 84 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694.
We have, however, been able to find two post Miranda cases which support our original affirmance of this conviction. In United States v. Agy, 374 F.2d 94, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on March 16, 1967, held that where investigators, armed with probable cause to arrest and search, approached the accused and without warning asked him what he had in his truck, they were properly per*862mitted to say that he told them his truck contained whiskey.
The Supreme Court of Montana on September 28, 1967, in Berger v. District Court, 423 P.2d 93, held that the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of the Sheriff, who went to the hospital and questioned one Clara Thomas, who was not in police custody and upon whom the inquiry had not achieved a “focus”.
We conclude that we properly disposed of appellant’s other contentions on original submission and will write no further.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.