State v. Davis

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

About two o’clock in the afternoon of January 27, 1947, the accused, who was proceeding east on U. S. Highway 90 in a Plymouth automobile, picked up Charles McSorley, a hitchhiker, somewhere in the vicinity of the Higgins Industries plant, a few miles east of New Orleans. McSorley’s destination was Miami, Florida, and the defendant Davis’s avowed destination was Jacksonville, Florida. Davis stopped the car somewhere near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line and purchased some lubricating oil. Thereafter the two men continued driving east on Highway 90 for about IS minutes,…