State v. Wilson

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The appellant stands convicted of murder and sentenced to be electrocuted.

The record contains eleven bills of exception, but we find it not necessary to consider any but the two bills which were reserved to the judge’s admitting in evidence, over the defendant’s objection, two typewritten documents signed by the defendant and purporting to be his free and voluntary confessions. The first of the two alleged confessions was signed in the presence of six officers, namely, the sheriff of the Parish of St. Charles, in which parish the crime was committed, and three of his…