State v. Wilson

HIGGINS, Justice. .

The accused, a negro, was convicted by the jury of the crime of rape of a white woman and the judge sentenced him to death by electrocution. He appealed from the conviction and sentence and relies upon three Bills of Exception for the annulment of the judgment.

Bill of Exception No. 1 was reserved when the district judge overruled the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment, the grand jury venire and the grand jury panel. He alleged that he was a negro and was charged with raping a white woman; that he was indicted by the grand jury of the Parish of Orleans;' that his…