State v. Mitchell

The accused was charged with the larceny of property valued at $35. He was tried, convicted of the crime charged, and sentenced to serve a term of nine months, at hard labor, in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

From the verdict and sentence he appealed. There are three bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1 was reserved to the overruling of objections to testimony tendered by the state to prove a confession of guilt alleged to have been made by the accused, an employee of the Murray Brooks Hardware Company, after his arrest upon a warrant charging him with the larceny of his employer’s…