STATE v. PEARSON

No. 41441.

69 So.2d 512 (1953)

224 La. 393

STATE v. PEARSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. D. Flowers, Jena, and Warren Hunt, Rayville, for appellant.

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cameron C. Minard, Dist. Atty., Columbia, and W. Sardis Bassett, Oak Grove, of counsel, for the State.


PONDER, Justice.

The defendant, Luther Pearson, was charged with murder. He was tried, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to serve eighteen years in the penitentiary. He has appealed.

The defendant reserved seven bills of exceptions, during the course of the trial, to the rulings of the trial judge.

Bill of exception No. 1 was taken to the overruling of a motion for a change of venue. It is alleged in the motion that the citizens of La Salle...

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