STATE v. MORRIS

No. 40959.

62 So.2d 649 (1952)

222 La. 480

STATE v. MORRIS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Stanley, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Severn T. Darden, Dist. Atty., and James P. Screen, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Warren Morris, claims that he was improperly convicted and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary as a second offender on a charge of wilfully and unlawfully possessing heroin, first, because he was not permitted to ask the jurors on their voir dire the question: "Now, gentlemen, entrapment is recognized as a valid defense available to a person charged with the commission of a crime under certain circumstances * * * and it...

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