State v. Carricut

The accused was duly indicted, tried, and convicted of murder, and sentenced to be hanged. His appeal presents six bills of exception, as follows: .

Bill No. 1.

The district attorney challenged the juror Louis Ortego for cause; the trial judge excused the juror on the ground that the juror “stated on his- voir dire that he was an intimate friend of the accused, and felt that under the circumstances he could not dp justice to [between] the accused and the state.”

Aside from the manifest propriety of the ruling, the bill is yet without merit. In State v. Bagwell, 154 La. 980, 985, 98 So. 549, 551,…