STATE v. POLAND

No. 49971.

232 So.2d 499 (1970)

255 La. 746

STATE of Louisiana v. John POLAND.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 23, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scallan E. Walsh, Donald T. W. Phelps, Bert K. Robinson, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sargent Pitcher, Jr., Dist. Atty., Ralph L. Roy, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, John Poland, is appealing from his conviction and sentence to death on an indictment charging him with murder, relying for the reversal thereof on 23 of the many Bills of Exceptions reserved during the course of the trial.

The first of these, Bill of Exceptions No. 3, was reserved when the trial judge overruled the defense plea of double jeopardy. The basis for this bill lies...

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