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C. 250), Decided Oct. 13, affirming a judgment of conviction, he brings ZIANG SUNG WAN v. UNITED STATES. (Argued April 7, 8, 1924. 1924.) No. 127. 1. Criminal law 519(1)-Confession not voluntary merely because not induced by promise or threat. In federal courts, a confession is not voluntary merely because not induced by promise or threat, but must in fact have been voluntarily made. 2. Criminal law 519(9)-Confession to police officers while in custody, in answer to examination, may have been voluntary. A confession may have been given voluntarily, though made to police officers while in custody, and in answer to an examination conducted by them. 3. Criminal law 521-Confession obtained by compulsion excluded, regardless of character of compulsion. Confession obtained by compulsion must be excluded, whatever may have been the character of the compulsion, and whether compulsion was applied in judicial proceeding or otherwise. certiorari. Reversed. On January 31, 1919, the police department of the District of Columbia learned that three Chinamen, the inmates of a house in Washington occupied by the Chinese Educational Mission, had been murdered. They were known to have been alive late in the evening of January 29. Police officers were told by Li, a student, that, earlier on the same evening, he had seen at the Mission a resident of New York City named Wan. Acting under instructions of the superintendent of police, two detectives started immediately for New York, taking Li with them. On Feb4. Criminal law 519(9)-Confession made while ill and in custody of police held not vol-uary 1, they entered Wan's room in a lodging house, found him there, and brought him untary. to Washington. He was not formally arrested until February 9. Later, *he was indicted, in the Supreme Court of the District, for the murder of one of the Chinamen; was found guilty; and was sentenced to be hanged. The Court of Appeals of the District affirmed the judgment. 289 F. 908, 53 App. D. C. 250. A writ of certiorari was granted. 263 U. S. 693, 44 S. Ct. 34, 68 L. Ed. 509. The main question for decision1 is whether, Statements made by accused to police officers, and written statement signed by him after interrogation by police officers, at a time when accused was very ill, was in constant intense pain, and had been unable to eat for days, and after he had been in custody of police for more than a week, suffering from such disease and subjected to persistent examination, notwithstanding protestations that he was too ill to answer questions and that he wished to be left alone, held not voluntary, having been obtained by compulsion. *9 1 The indictment was found on September 30, 1919; On Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of the verdict rendered on January 9, 1920; and the the District of Columbia. sentence imposed on May 14, 1920. The time for filing the bill of exceptions, which under the rule For other cases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes 45 SUP.CT.-1 |