Legal Opinion
State v. Nelson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 21, 1972No. 51212PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANDERS, Justice.
In this criminal prosecution for murder, the jury returned a verdict of guilty without capital punishment against the defendant, Charles F. Nelson. The trial judge then sentenced him to life imprisonment. He has appealed to this Court, relying upon eleven bills of exceptions. These bills relate primarily to the overruling of his motion to suppress evidence, the use at the trial of the testimony of a prosecution witness taken at the preliminary hearing, and the admission in evidence of a shirt and other demonstrative evidence.
The theory of the State’s case is that Nelson,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1966
- State v. AndrusSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1967
- United States v. John ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- State v. WrightSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1969
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3Cited by31 opinions
- State v. WilkersonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
- State v. DaviesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
- State v. KaufmanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
- State v. MonkSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
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