Legal Opinion
State v. Werner
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided December 2, 1918No. 23180PublishedCited by 16 opinions
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans; Frank D. Chretien, Judge. Louis Werner and Walter Fazende were convicted of murder, and Werner appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
Defendant, Werner, was charged with and convicted of the murder of Frank T. Connor, a police officer, on February 14, 1918, in a drug store, in the city of New Orleans. He was sentenced to be hanged. He appeals from the judgment ■ and sentence. Fazende was found guilty without capital punishment. He has not appealed.
The state, on cross-examination of Werner, who had taken the witness stand in his own behalf, asked him:
“While you were here [in New Orleans] had you not held up another man and woman in another place of business at the point of a pistol and robbed them?”
The question was objected…
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