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STATE v. RICKS

No. 45831.

138 So.2d 589 (1962)

242 La. 823

STATE of Louisiana v. Maurice B. RICKS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 19, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Barbee Ponder, Ellis H. Bostick, Jr., Amite, Grover L. Covington, Kentwood, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Duncan S. Kemp, Dist. Atty., Amite, W. M. Dawkins, Denham Springs, and Leonard E. Yokum, Hammond, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

HAMITER, Justice.

Under an indictment charging that he murdered one John George Lackmann, in violation of Article 30 of the Louisiana Criminal Code, Maurice B. Ricks was tried by a jury, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary. On this appeal he relies on 24 bills of exceptions for a reversal of the conviction and sentence.

Bill of exceptions Number 1 was taken to the court's overruling...

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