STATE v. SEARS

No. 39435.

46 So.2d 34 (1950)

217 La. 47

STATE v. SEARS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Wray Gill, New Orleans, for defendant and appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Attorney General, M. E. Culligan, Asst. Attorney General, Herve Racivitch, District Attorney, Guy Johnson, 1st Asst. District Attorney, New Orleans, for appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

The defendant, Thomas Sears, has appealed to this court from his conviction and sentence to death for the murder of Edna Francois.

Defendant resided in the rear apartment at the premises 746 South Lopez Street in the City of New Orleans. The facts relied upon by the State are that, on the day of the homicide, Katherine Sears, the estranged wife of the defendant, went to his apartment; that shortly after her entrance a shot was heard; that...

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