State v. Lewis

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The accused was prosecuted and convicted for murder, without capital punishment, and sentenced to hard labor for life.

For the reversal of the verdict and sentence he relies ou two bills of exception and on a motion in arrest.

I

In the first .bill it is charged that the court admitted in evidence, against the defendant, the deposition and confession of himself, taken under oath, at his preliminary examination ; that there was error in this admission, because the deposition and pretended confession was not free and voluntary.

The trial judge…