EVIDENCE-ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONS IN FEDERAL COURTS UNDER THE McNABB RULE

Defendant, after proper arraignment on a charge of as· sault, was questioned intermittently about and confessed to a murder. This confession, introduced at the trial in the District Court of Alaska, was instrumental in convicting the defendant of the graver charge. The court of appeals reversed because of a failure to file the murder complaint within a reasonable time. On certiorari, held, the confession, made after proper detention on a lesser charge, was legal and admissible if given freely; but case affirmed as modified on other grounds.

United States v. Carignan, 342 U.S. 36, 72 S.Ct. 97 (1951).