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4 fy he defendants were kept in the detention room for about fourteen hours where there was nothing they could sit or lie down on except the floor. The court also emphasized the fact that the defendants were men of little education and had never been far away from home. et hk yo i In the Anderson case, the Court called attention to the fact that the prisoners were unlewfully held, sare i, - ] for days, and subjected to long questioning in the hostile atmosphere of a bmall corpany-dominated mining town. iP While on first reeding the cases seem to hold thet a confession is not admissible in evidence, if obtained from a defendant after his arrest and before he is brought —— before a committing magistrate, and if the interval between | his arrest and his appearance before the magistrate is longer than it shoulé have been under the circumstances, a more able doubt on this conclusion. It can hardly be said that the Court in a clear cut fashion goes as far as that because it calls attention to the fact in the Mdiabb case that the defendants were not properly treated by the officers, in that they were held for fourteen hours in a room in which they could neither sit down or lie down except on the floor; and in the Anderson case the Court called attention to the