State v. O'Day

On Rehearing.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused, Jack O’Day, alias Jack King, was indicted and tried for the murder of one Estelle' Hughes. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term of six years and six months to twenty years in the State Penitentiary. He ap'pealed and the verdict of the jury and sentence of the court were affirmed. State v. O’Day, 188 La. 169, 175 So. 838.

The State then filed a bill of information under Act No. 15 of 1928, charging the defendant with being a multiple or habitual offender, alleging that he had been previously convicted and sentenced, first, for the…