State v. Holmes

BRUNOT, Judge.

The accused was indicted, arraigned, and tried for the crime of murder. The trial resulted in the jury returning a qualified verdict. A motion for a new trial was filed, heard, and overruled, and the accused was sentenced to serve a life term imprisonment in the Louisiana state penitentiary. Erom the verdict and sentence, he appealed.

There are ten bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1.

This bill was reserved to the overruling of a request, by the accused, to be permitted to withdraw his plea of “not guilty.” The sole reason for the request is that the court held sessions in…