HAMITER, Justice.
The defendant herein, Lucien Peters, is appealing from his conviction, as well as from his sentence to nine years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary, on a charge of simple burglary. For a reversal thereof, he relies on one bill of exceptions.
It appears that prior to his trial by a jury, the defendant objected to the petit jury venire and moved that it be dismissed or quashed due to alleged racial discrimination. He contended, as he...
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