Court Opinion

ID: 5029694
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 05:18:34.066468+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:05:11.246649
License: Public Domain

Appellant now urges that the trial court erred in failing to submit to the jury the question of the voluntariness of his confession. Reliance is had primarily on Stevenson v. Boles, D.C., 221 F. Supp. 411, 4 Cir., 331 F.2d 939, and Boles v. Stevenson, 85 S.Ct. 174. As stated in our original opinion the confession was admitted without objection and no request was made that the jury be instructed on the issue of its voluntariness.
In Stevenson, supra, the Court had before it the question of involuntariness due to the action of the police. Here we have a question of the consciousness of what the accused was saying which resulted solely from his own misconduct.
Neither Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368, 84 S.Ct. 1774, 12 L.Ed.2d 908, nor Stevenson, supra, requires a finding of voluntariness in such a case.
Appellant's motion for rehearing is overruled.