State v. Michel

McCALEB, Justice.

On the night of February 10, 1953, appellant, a nineteen year old negro, waylaid two fifteen year old white girls, who were returning to their homes in New Orleans after witnessing a carnival parade, and, while holding them captive with an open blade knife, robbed them of their meagre possessions, a wrist watch, two rings and a gold cross. After taking this jewelry, he released one of the girls but commanded the other to walk with him to a nearby secluded spot in the area of St. Bernard Avenue, where he forced her, by threats against her life, to perform an unspeakable and…