State v. Dooley

ROGERS, Justice.'

Spencer Dooley has appealed from his conviction and sentence to fifteen years in the penitentiary for the crime of incest as denounced by Article 78 of the Louisiana Criminal Code. The charge is that defendant cohabited with the oldest of his three unmarried daughters.

Defendant complains of the admission in evidence, over his objection, of certain statements and admissions made in a conversation held in the parish jail between him and his daughter, who stood in a hallway separated from the cell block by two steel barred doors covered with mesh screens.

A police matron and a…