Virgil Rudolph Stone, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed the conviction, holding that the appellant was not in custody when he made his oral confession, and that the trial court did not err on a series of evidentiary and procedural issues, including bolstering, admissibility of officer testimony, materiality of omitted statements, and the State's questioning of witnesses. Justice Roberts dissented, arguing that the confession was made while the appellant was in custody and should have been excluded.