La Fontaine v. State

The appellant, August C. La Fontaine, was indicted on September 9, 1954, for the' murder of Ralph DeLoach on the 28th day of March, 1954. An attorney was appointed to defend him a few weeks prior to the September 1954 term of the court at which he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for his crime of murder. Both the accused and his victim, DeLoach, were serving terms in the state penitentiary at the time De-Loach was stabbed to death with a homemade knife by the accused.

The place of the homicide was in the west wing of the sleeping quarters at Camp No. 6 in the Mississippi State…