State v. Banks
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Sixteenth District ana. Court, Parish of East Felica. Brame, J. 1. The accused has no right to exact a list of the State witnesses to be produced b fore the petit jury, nor can the Court require the district attorney to'furnish such a list as a condition precedent to a trial of the cause. 32 Ann., 782. State ex rel. 'Wickliffoj 39 Ann., 847, 2.- The fact that a witness was an accomplice may affect his credibility, but not his competency. 23 Ann., 78 ; 25…
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APPEAL from the Sixteenth District ana. Court, Parish of East Felica. Brame, J. 1. The accused has no right to exact a list of the State witnesses to be produced b fore the petit jury, nor can the Court require the district attorney to'furnish such a list as a condition precedent to a trial of the cause. 32 Ann., 782. State ex rel. 'Wickliffoj 39 Ann., 847, 2.- The fact that a witness was an accomplice may affect his credibility, but not his competency. 23 Ann., 78 ; 25 Ann., 592. In the last case the law plainly stated that a jury may convict on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Poché, J.
In this case, in which Adolphus Banks, Louis Edwards, Edmond Drennels, and Prudy Williams had been indicted for conspiracy and murder, a nolle prosequi was entered as to Banks, who was afterwards used as a State wintess, and ,the trial resulted in the acquittal of Prudy Williams, and in the conviction of murder, by an unqualified verdict, of Edmond Drennells, and in the conviction of Louis Edwards for murder without capital punishment.
The two convicted defendants prosecute this appeal and urge numerous complaints for our examination.
1st. They…
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