State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; Robert Hingle, Judge. Joseph Michel, alias Burns, and Alexander Williams were convicted of crime, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, J.
The accused Joseph Burns was indicted for rape of one Mamie Morris; also the accused Alexander Williams of one Lilly Works. Both crimes are charged to have been committed at the same date. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, without capital punishment, and from that verdict, and the sentence to suffer imprisonment at hard labor for the period of their natural lives, they appeal. They (defendants) are colored. The two cases were, by consent of counsel, consolidated and tried together—a practice, we are constrained to say, which cannot meet with our approval. 1 Bishop Criminal Procedure (3d…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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