Court Opinion

ID: 9761757
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:53:19.602899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:55:49.659627
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MORRISON, Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the affirmance of this conviction solely on the grounds that nowhere in appellant’s testimony or elsewhere in the record do we find any reference to any request made by appellant to see any attorney or any evidence that he had employed an attorney or that he was too poor to employ one or that he had requested that one be appointed to represent him prior to the making; of the confession. So far as this record is concerned, this appellant had no desire for the services of an attorney at the time he confessed. Were it not for these facts, I am convinced that under the holdings of the Supreme Court of the United States in Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977, and Massiah v. United States, supra, this; conviction would be reversed.