State v. Truax

62 So.2d 643 (1952)

222 La. 463

STATE

v.

TRUAX.

No. 40957.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 15, 1952.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1953.

Weber & Weber, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Ass't Atty. Gen., and Joseph A. Sims, Dist. Atty., Hammond, for appellee.

LE BLANC, Justice.

The defendant in this case, Julius Truax, was formally indicted by a Grand Jury in the Parish of Livingston on October 17, 1951, for having committed the crime of incest on May 29, 1951. He was tried before a jury which rendered a verdict of "guilty as charged" on May 8, 1952. On May 22,…