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STATE v. ROY

No. 40552.

58 So.2d 323 (1952)

220 La. 1017

STATE v. ROY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. J. Roy, Earl Edwards, Marksville, for defendant-appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chas. A. Riddle, Jr., Dist. Atty., Francis J. Gremillion, Sp. Asst. to Prosecutor, Marksville, for appellee.

LE BLANC, Justice.

Defendant, Rellie Roy, was indicted on May 11, 1951 for the murder of her husband, Sylvan Roy, on October 20, 1949. She was arraigned on the same day and pleaded not guilty. After trial on the merits, the jury which tried her rendered a qualified verdict of guilty and on June 8, 1951 she was sentenced to the State Penitentiary for life. The misspelling of the word "capital" in the verdict is made the subject of one of the bills of exception which...

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