State v. Hash

The prisoner Hash has appealed from a sentence of death pronounced against him by the District Court of the parish of Morehouse, upon the unqualified verdict of a jury finding him guilty of the murder of John Morris

Iiis only ground of complaint against the ruling of the District Court is, that the testimony of A. J. Bobo, as to his alleged confessions in jail, was improperly permitted to go to the jury. The bill of exceptions sets forth, that the objections made to the admission of this testimony were but two: 1st, that at the time the confessions to the witness Bobo were made, the prisoner…