What is the test for admissible statements made by a person under detention as a result of questions put to him by a police officer?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Steinson, 1945 CanLII 192 (SK CA):
In making this ruling the learned Judge appears to have based it upon the decision of this Court in Rex v. Scory 1944 CanLII 220 (SK CA), [1945] 1 W.W.R. 15, 83 C.C.C. 306, wherein upon the authority of Rex v. Gach 1943 CanLII 32 (SCC), [1943] S.C.R. 250, 79 C.C.C. 221, it held that incriminating statements made by a person under detention as a result of questions put to him by a police officer are not admissible in evidence unless a proper warning has first been given him.
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