State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from tbe Twenty-first Judicial District, Parish -of Pointe-Coupeé — Olaiborne, J. Tbe defendant, sentenced to be banged under a conviction for murder, appealed.
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A PPEAL from tbe Twenty-first Judicial District, Parish -of Pointe-Coupeé — Olaiborne, J. Tbe defendant, sentenced to be banged under a conviction for murder, appealed. He rests bis right to reversal upon tbe following bill of exceptions: “Be it known that on the trial of the -above styled and numbered cause tbe corpus delicti not having been proven or admitted and no-evidence having been introduced to prove tbe homicide of Alfred Hebert, alleged in tbe indictment to have been committed by the defendant, Willie Williams, -the State put upon the stand one T. W. Noble,, who testified as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
The State having offered in evidence the unsworn statements and declarations of Hebert, the party alleged to have been *225murdered, defendant’s counsel objected that they were not admissible, being hearsay. Such declarations and statements are, in a criminal canse, -admissible only in exceptional cases and under special circumstances and conditions. The objection having been prima facie well grounded, it should -have been sustained, unless the facts and circumstances were such a-s to have made them 'admissible under the special facts and…
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