STATE v. HARRELL

No. 42336.

82 So.2d 701 (1955)

228 La. 434

STATE of Louisiana v. Charles Governor HARRELL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Bennett, Clinton, for defendant-appellant.

Fred G. Benton, Edward Donald Moseley, Baton Rouge, amici curiae.

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard Kilbourne, Dist. Atty., Clinton, for appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant, a twenty-year-old Negro, was indicted and tried for murder and found guilty as charged. Following the mandatory sentence of death by electrocution, he appealed, relying on five bills of exceptions for a reversal of his conviction.

Ordinarily, the five bills of exceptions would not be reviewed by this court for, although taken during the progress of the trial, they were not perfected by presentation to the trial judge for his signature...

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