STATE v. COLLINS

No. 45796.

138 So.2d 546 (1962)

242 La. 704

STATE of Louisiana v. Woodman J. COLLINS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel N. Knight, Stephen P. Coco, Grenese R. Jackson, Jennings, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Bernard N. Marcantel, Dist. Atty., Jennings, Alfred R. Ryder, Asst. Dist. Atty., Oberlin, for plaintiff-appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Woodman J. Collins was tried, convicted and sentenced under an indictment charging him with aggravated rape upon one Gladys E. Vatis; and from his conviction and sentence to "serve the death penalty as provided by law," he has appealed, relying for reversal on a number of errors allegedly committed during the trial to which timely objection was made and bills perfected.1

According to the record, Mrs. Vatis...

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