Arizona Supreme Court· 4/14/1978

State v. Arnett

Citations

579 P.2d 542
119 Ariz. 38
1978 Ariz. LEXIS 197

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defining violence as the “exertion of any physical force so as to injure or abuse.”
defining “violence” as the “exertion of any physical force so as to injure or abuse” and holding that the appellant’s prior conviction for the “lewd and lascivious act” of inserting his finger into a five-year-old girl’s vagina, fits within this definition
“in construing a statute, if the language is plain, there is no occasion for construction or interpretation.”
for purposes of reviewing trial court’s determination of the voluntariness of a confession, appellate court looks only to evidence presented at the voluntariness hearing
“[E]vidence of nothing more than uncomfortable surroundings and slight health problems” will not establish that an arrestee’s “free will” has been “overborne.”
“[U]nless the record affirmatively shows that . . . a fair and impartial jury was not secured, the conviction must be affirmed.”

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Judges: Hays, Cameron, Struckmeyer, Holohan, Gordon

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