STATE v. CARTER

No. 47514.

181 So.2d 763 (1965)

248 La. 730

STATE of Louisiana v. Joshua CARTER and Lawrence Baptiste.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion June 21, 1965.

On Rehearing January 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Dowling, Edward M. Baldwin, New Orleans, for appellants.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Garrison, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., George Piazza II, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Joshua Carter and Lawrence Baptiste prosecute this appeal from their conviction of a charge by indictment returned by the Orleans Parish grand jury on December 12, 1961, of the aggravated rape1 of Mrs. Myrtle Sandifur, as well as from their death sentences thereunder, relying for the reversal thereof on numerous errors allegedly committed during the course of their trial, to which objections were timely made and...

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