State v. Roy

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was charged in a bill of information with being an habitual criminal under the provisions of Act No. 45 of 1942, LSA-RS 15:529.1. He was convicted, tried and sentenced to serve twenty years in the penitentiary. He has appealed from the conviction and sentence.

His counsel is urging two bills of exceptions on this appeal.

Bill of exception No. 1 was taken to the overruling of a motion to quash the bill of information on the ground that it was not alleged therein that defendant had the benefit of counsel or had waived same in the trials resulting in his prior…