State v. Calascione

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

■ The accused, Frank Joseph Calascione, having been charged with the unlawful possession of fifteen marijuana cigarettes, in violation of R.S. 40 :962, 1 appeals from his conviction and sentence thereunder to serve ten years at hard labor.

For a reversal of his sentence and conviction, the defendant relies upon three bills of exception, 2 all involving the same issue, i.e., whether the cigarettes upon which the state based its case were admissible in evidence, it being the defendant’s contention that they had been obtained illegally in that they were secured without a…