State v. Willie
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa”; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Louis Willie and others were convicted of manslaughter, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The accused, Louis Willie, Edgar Willie, and I-Iezzie Willie, were indicted for the' murder of one Olan Pierre, were found guilty of manslaughter, and were severally sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary.
The accused have appealed, and rely for reversal on a number of bills of exception.
The conclusion that we have reached on one of these bills renders it unnecessary to consider a number of others.
[1] The bills reserved to the competency of jurors for their lack of knowledge of the law relative to self-defense, burden of proof, etc., are without merit. Jurors are not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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