State v. Clouatre

SUMMERS, Justice.

Appellant was charged by bill of information with possession of a narcotic drug. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to serve six years at hard labor. On this appeal a number of bills of exceptions are presented for consideration.

Bill 1

This bill was reserved to the trial judge’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress “any tangible objects or other property or documents, books, papers or other writings.” The ground of the objection is that the objects obtained from the person of the accused were illegally seized. The illegality is said to stem from the objects having…