State v. Bell

On Rehearing

McCALEB, Justice.

We granted a rehearing herein to reconsider our ruling that the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing appellant’s motion for a new trial founded on newly-discovered evidence. The facts of the case, so far as pertinent to our discussion, are as follows:

Appellant, Mervin Bell, was tried and convicted of armed robbery (R.S. 14:64), having been identified as one of the two young Negro thugs who set upon one Roland Ledet, a collector for an installment furniture store, while he was making his collections from tenants in the St. Bernard *353Housing Project in the…