State v. Richard

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant, Edwin Richard, has appealed from his conviction under LSA-R.S. 14:78 of the crime of unlawfully cohabiting arid having sexual intercourse with his sister, Lorena Richard, aged 14, and his sentence to serve 12 years at hard labor in. the state penitentiary.

Appellant contends that the lower court erred, first, in admitting a written confession, made by him in the district attorney’s office, over his objection that the alleged confession was not freely and voluntarily given, and, second, in overruling his motion for a new trial.

It is well settled in the law of this…