State v. Washington

Defendant was indicted and tried in Morehouse Parish for the murder of Dave White, a member of the Police Department of the City of Bastrop. Following the return of the jury's verdict of guilty as charged, the court sentenced him to suffer the penalty of death in the manner and form provided by law. He is appealing from the conviction and sentence.

The undisputed facts appear to be that shortly before six o'clock of the morning of August 21, 1944, decedent, Dave White, in response to a telephone call, went to the home of the accused, in the City of Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, and arrested him.…