Max Shiflet v. State Texas

Max Shiflet, appellant, was convicted by a jury for committing the offense of murder of Diana Kaiser. The trial judge assessed appellants punishment at life imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals affirmed. See Shiflet v. State, 653 S.W.2d 830 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 1982). We granted appellants petition for discretionary review in order to make the determination whether the court of appeals correctly held that at the determination whether the court of appeals correctly held that at the time that appellant, who was then a deputy sheriff for Wharton County, made an oral admission against interest, which was later reduced to writing, he was not then in the custody of Carl Weathers, a Texas Ranger, and Earl Winebrenner, the Chief Deputy for the Wharton County sheriffs Department. Because we find that the court of appeals reached the right result, that the appellants oral admission against interest was admissible evidence, because when he made the admission he was not in custody, we will affirm its judgment.