State v. Bell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; B. H. Pavey, Judge. Henderson Bell was convicted of burglary, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The accused appeals from a sentence for the crime of burglary, and relies for reversal on one bill of exceptions. It appears; from the record that one Willie Morris was jointly indicted with Henderson Bell, but broke jail and made his escape.
On the trial of the cause the state called Plais Hern, a deputy sheriff, to the stand, who testified that he had found the watch, identified by the prosecuting witness, on the person of the accused; that the accused told; him he had received the watch from one Willie Morris; that the witness then and there went and got Willie Morris, and confronted, the…
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