State v. Truax

LE BLANC, Justice.

The defendant in this case, Julius Truax, was formally indicted by a Grand Jury in the Parish of Livingston on October 17, 1951, for having committed the crime of incest on May 29, 1951. He was tried before a jury which rendered a verdict of “guilty as charged” ,on May 8, 1952. On May 22, 1952, he was sentenced by the Court to imprisonment at hard labor in the *465State Penitentiary for seven and one-half years.

From the extract of the Court minute entries as reproduced in the record, it appears that the defendant was represented by employed counsel at the time of his arraignment…