STATE v. WESTON

No. 43314.

95 So.2d 305 (1957)

232 La. 766

STATE of Louisiana v. Emile WESTON, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel B. Dickinson, Elmo Lear, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. St. Clair Favrot, Dist. Atty., Scallan E. Walsh, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, for appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

Shortly before midnight on May 27, 1956, a 35 year old white female, while walking on North Baton Rouge Avenue to her home in Baton Rouge following a visit to a friend, was seized from behind by a Negro man who threw a red bandanna handkerchief around her mouth and dragged her down alongside a slough, or drainage canal, which runs under the street at this particular location. Thereupon the man began choking the woman and told her that she knew what...

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