STATE v. HONEYCUTT

No. 39460.

44 So.2d 313 (1950)

216 La. 610

STATE v. HONEYCUTT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon S. Haas, Jr., Robert F. De Jean, L. Austin Fontenot, Jr., Opelousas, for appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Ass't. Atty. Gen., J. Y. Fontenot, District Attorney, Opelousas, for appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant, Edward (W. T.) Honeycutt, charged in a bill of indictment with the crime of aggravated rape, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, has appealed to this court. For reversal of the conviction and sentence he relies on six bills of exception. We find merit in Bill of Exception No. 3, which was reserved to a ruling of the court admitting in evidence a written confession made by the accused.

The indictment charges that the crime...

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