State v. Rowan

HAMITER, Justice.

James Clark Rowan, the defendant herein, is appealing from his conviction and sentence (nine years in the State Penitentiary at hard labor) on a charge of simple burglary of a store belonging to J. J. Mayeaux and located in Evangeline Parish. For a reversal he relies on six perfected bills of exceptions.

Bills Numbers 1 and 3 will be discussed first and somewhat together inasmuch as both relate to the admissibility into evidence of a pistol found in and taken from the automobile of the defendant. Assertedly, the gun had been stolen during the course of the burglary with which…