State v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Denis Miller, Judge. Will Jackson was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNicholls, C. J.
The defendant was indicted on the 4th of February, 1903, by a grand jury for Calcasieu parish, for the murder of one John Robertson, on October 2, 1902.
The case was tried on the 24th of August, 1903, the trial resulting in a verdict of guilty without capital punishment. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a new trial, he was sentenced to be confined at hard labor in the state penitentiary for the period of his natural life, and subject to legal commutation.
From this verdict and judgment he has appealed.
On the trial of the case the state offered in evidence the written testimony of John…
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