State v. Broussard

HAMITER, Justice.

In case No. 124-030, on the docket of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, the defendant, Edgar Broussard, was charged with having committed the crime of simple burglary on February 9, 1947, a felony under Article 62 of the Louisiana Criminal Code; and when arraigned on March 10, 1947, he pleaded guilty to the charge. Thereafter he was tried as a fourth offender under the provisions of Act No. 45 of 1942, the state alleging in the bill'of information that he had been convicted and sentenced in the same court for the commission of three other felonies as…