State v. Burkhalter

BARHAM, Justice.

Eddie J. Burkhalter and Mancel Clayton were jointly tried for murder (R.S. 14:30), and both were convicted. Clayton was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Burk-halter to death. Burkhalter has appealed his conviction and sentence.

Burkhalter filed a motion for a bill of particulars, containing 11 requests for information. The State answered, eight of these, but refused to answer the -other three. The trial judge declined to require the State to furnish these answers, and to that ruling the defendant reserved the only hill of exception which is before us.

The information…