Legal Opinion
State v. Wells
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 31, 1969No. 49337PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMITER, Justice.
Jerry Wells was charged in a bill of information with the crime of attempted murder. He was tried by a jury, which rendered a yerdict of. attempted-manslaughter, and was sentenced to serve„four and one-half years at hard-labor in the State Penitentiary.
The defendant is appealing, and he relies on six bills of exceptions in order to obtain a reversal of such conviction and sentence.
Bill of exceptions No. 1 was reserved when the trial court overruled the motion for. a .continuance filed by the court-appointed counsel of the accused, it being based on the ground that he had not…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Nathanson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- State v. McIlvaineSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1965
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