STATE v. TURNER

No. 46338.

152 So.2d 555 (1963)

244 La. 447

STATE of Louisiana v. Wayne TURNER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Mentz, Jr., Hammond, Allen B. Pierson, Jr., Ponchatoula, for defendantappellant.

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


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant Wayne Turner, charged with murder, was convicted and sentenced to death. He has appealed, relying for reversal on a bill of exception taken to the overruling of his motion for a mistrial.1

The bill of exception, signed by the trial judge, discloses that the motion for a mistrial was made under the following circumstances: The State called as witnesses the...

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