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STATE v. LAYTON

No. 39596.

46 So.2d 37 (1950)

217 La. 57

STATE v. LAYTON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Hunt, Rayville, James D. McIntosh, J. Vernon Sims, Oak Grove, Alcide J. Weysham, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry N. Anders, Dist. Atty., Winnsboro, W. Sartis Bassett, Oak Grove, for appellee.

HAMITER, Justice.

In case No. 3082 on the docket of the Fifth Judicial District Court in and for West Carroll Parish the defendant, Robert Layton, stood indicted for the murder, on February 18, 1949, of one Jim Ward. Also therein a Lunacy Commission, appointed on the application of defendant, filed reports pronouncing him presently sane and sane at the time of the alleged commission of the crime. But before commencement of the trial all of the proceedings had in that...

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